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"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Construction and Maintenance Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Construction and Maintenance
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Construction and Maintenance The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "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
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Construction and Maintenance For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Construction and Maintenance
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Construction and Maintenance An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Construction and Maintenance I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Construction and Maintenance
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Construction and Maintenance Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Construction and Maintenance
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Construction and Maintenance I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Construction and Maintenance
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage 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 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Construction and Maintenance
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Construction and Maintenance "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Construction and Maintenance
"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) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Construction and Maintenance Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Construction and Maintenance
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Construction and Maintenance "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Construction and Maintenance
