In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Construction and Maintenance Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Construction and Maintenance
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Construction and Maintenance We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Construction and Maintenance
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Construction and Maintenance "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Construction and Maintenance
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 Construction and Maintenance To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Construction and Maintenance
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Construction and Maintenance Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Construction and Maintenance
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Construction and Maintenance "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Construction and Maintenance Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance
"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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Construction and Maintenance The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Construction and Maintenance
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Construction and Maintenance My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Construction and Maintenance
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Construction and Maintenance I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Construction and Maintenance
