Executive Benefits - Flexible pensions, insurance and investments for engineers and technicians.
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Newcastle Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Newcastle
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Newcastle CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Newcastle
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Newcastle To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Newcastle
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Newcastle "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Newcastle
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Newcastle "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Newcastle
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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Newcastle This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Newcastle
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Newcastle Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Newcastle
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Newcastle "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Newcastle
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "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 woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Newcastle "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Newcastle
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Newcastle The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Newcastle
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Newcastle I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Newcastle
