"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Construction and Maintenance If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Construction and Maintenance
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert 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 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Construction and Maintenance I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Construction and Maintenance
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Construction and Maintenance To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Construction and Maintenance
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "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 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Construction and Maintenance The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Construction and Maintenance
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Construction and Maintenance Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Construction and Maintenance
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Construction and Maintenance I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Construction and Maintenance
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Construction and Maintenance blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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
ask th Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Construction and Maintenance
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Construction and Maintenance If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Construction and Maintenance
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Construction and Maintenance "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Construction and Maintenance
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Construction and Maintenance I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Construction and Maintenance
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Construction and Maintenance "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Construction and Maintenance
