The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Construction and Maintenance A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Construction and Maintenance
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Construction and Maintenance Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Construction and Maintenance
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Construction and Maintenance Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Construction and Maintenance
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Construction and Maintenance Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Construction and Maintenance
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Construction and Maintenance "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Construction and Maintenance
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Construction and Maintenance "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Construction and Maintenance
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Construction and Maintenance I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Construction and Maintenance
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Construction and Maintenance Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Construction and Maintenance
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Construction and Maintenance "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Construction and Maintenance
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Construction and Maintenance "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Construction and Maintenance
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Construction and Maintenance Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Construction and Maintenance
