Mandate Trade Union - The union of retail, bar and administrative workers in Ireland.
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling MANDATE The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) MANDATE
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) MANDATE First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage MANDATE
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover MANDATE Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words MANDATE
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' MANDATE A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) MANDATE
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings MANDATE 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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason MANDATE
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g MANDATE He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) MANDATE
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) MANDATE No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black MANDATE
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "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) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln MANDATE "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf MANDATE
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle MANDATE Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat MANDATE
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) MANDATE In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden MANDATE
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully MANDATE Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf MANDATE
