Communications Workers Union Ireland (CWU) - Representing 20,000 workers and teleworkers in the communications, online, distribution and computer industries, both employed and self-employed.
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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Communication Workers Union 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 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Communication Workers Union
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Communication Workers Union Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Communication Workers Union
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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, Communication Workers Union If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Communication Workers Union
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Communication Workers Union Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Communication Workers Union
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Communication Workers Union 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Communication Workers Union
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Communication Workers Union Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Communication Workers Union
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Communication Workers Union Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Communication Workers Union
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Communication Workers Union The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Communication Workers Union
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Communication Workers Union Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Communication Workers Union
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Communication Workers Union Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Communication Workers Union
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Communication Workers Union This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Communication Workers Union
