As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Construction and Maintenance "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Construction and Maintenance
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Construction and Maintenance I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Construction and Maintenance
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Construction and Maintenance "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton What's new? Most of my wife. Construction and Maintenance
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Construction and Maintenance The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Construction and Maintenance
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Construction and Maintenance "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) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Construction and Maintenance
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Construction and Maintenance ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Construction and Maintenance
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Construction and Maintenance "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Construction and Maintenance
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Construction and Maintenance Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Construction and Maintenance
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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 Construction and Maintenance "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Construction and Maintenance
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Construction and Maintenance
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Construction and Maintenance You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Construction and Maintenance
