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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Construction and Maintenance "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Construction and Maintenance
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Construction and Maintenance Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Construction and Maintenance
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Construction and Maintenance Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Construction and Maintenance
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "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) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Construction and Maintenance We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Construction and Maintenance I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Construction and Maintenance
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Construction and Maintenance NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Construction and Maintenance
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) 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 one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Construction and Maintenance Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Construction and Maintenance
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Construction and Maintenance He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Construction and Maintenance
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Construction and Maintenance More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Construction and Maintenance
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Construction and Maintenance Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Construction and Maintenance
