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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "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 Construction and Maintenance Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Construction and Maintenance
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Construction and Maintenance "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Construction and Maintenance
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Construction and Maintenance The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Construction and Maintenance
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Construction and Maintenance "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Construction and Maintenance
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Construction and Maintenance "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Construction and Maintenance
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Construction and Maintenance For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance
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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Construction and Maintenance If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Construction and Maintenance
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Construction and Maintenance
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Construction and Maintenance Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Construction and Maintenance
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Construction and Maintenance Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Construction and Maintenance
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Construction and Maintenance .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Construction and Maintenance
