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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Construction and Maintenance The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Construction and Maintenance
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Construction and Maintenance Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Construction and Maintenance
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Construction and Maintenance A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Construction and Maintenance
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Construction and Maintenance "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Construction and Maintenance
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Construction and Maintenance The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Construction and Maintenance
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Construction and Maintenance "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Construction and Maintenance
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Construction and Maintenance Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Construction and Maintenance You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Construction and Maintenance
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Construction and Maintenance A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Construction and Maintenance To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Construction and Maintenance
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Construction and Maintenance If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Construction and Maintenance
