Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Trade Unions Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Trade Unions
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Trade Unions
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Trade Unions "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Trade Unions
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Trade Unions "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Trade Unions
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Trade Unions Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Trade Unions 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 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Trade Unions
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Trade Unions Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Trade Unions
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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, blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Trade Unions There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Trade Unions
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Trade Unions Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Trade Unions "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Trade Unions
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Trade Unions "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Trade Unions
