I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Construction and Maintenance "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Construction and Maintenance
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Construction and Maintenance "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Construction and Maintenance
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Construction and Maintenance Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Construction and Maintenance
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Construction and Maintenance However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Construction and Maintenance
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Construction and Maintenance When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Construction and Maintenance
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. 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 Construction and Maintenance "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." "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Construction and Maintenance
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Construction and Maintenance If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Construction and Maintenance
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) 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 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Construction and Maintenance And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Construction and Maintenance
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Construction and Maintenance It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Construction and Maintenance
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Construction and Maintenance Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Construction and Maintenance
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 Construction and Maintenance "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Construction and Maintenance
