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"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Construction and Maintenance "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Construction and Maintenance Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Construction and Maintenance
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Construction and Maintenance Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Construction and Maintenance
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Construction and Maintenance Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) 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
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Construction and Maintenance Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 Construction and Maintenance
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Construction and Maintenance He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Construction and Maintenance
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Construction and Maintenance
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Construction and Maintenance It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Construction and Maintenance
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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 Construction and Maintenance "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Construction and Maintenance
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 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 Construction and Maintenance I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Construction and Maintenance
