Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Construction and Maintenance Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Construction and Maintenance
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Construction and Maintenance Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Construction and Maintenance
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Construction and Maintenance Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Construction and Maintenance The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Construction and Maintenance
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Construction and Maintenance "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Construction and Maintenance "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Construction and Maintenance
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Construction and Maintenance In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Construction and Maintenance "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Construction and Maintenance
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Construction and Maintenance blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Construction and Maintenance
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Construction and Maintenance "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Construction and Maintenance
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Construction and Maintenance Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Construction and Maintenance
