"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Trade Unions "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Trade Unions
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Trade Unions "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Trade Unions
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Trade Unions Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Trade Unions
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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Trade Unions We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Trade Unions
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Trade Unions Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Trade Unions
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Trade Unions "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trade Unions
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Trade Unions "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Trade Unions
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Trade Unions You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Trade Unions
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Trade Unions Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trade Unions
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "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) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trade Unions Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Trade Unions
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Trade Unions An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Trade Unions
