"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Construction and Maintenance Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to 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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Construction and Maintenance
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Construction and Maintenance Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Construction and Maintenance
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Construction and Maintenance "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Construction and Maintenance
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Construction and Maintenance
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Construction and Maintenance Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Construction and Maintenance
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Construction and Maintenance "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Construction and Maintenance
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Construction and Maintenance "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Construction and Maintenance
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Construction and Maintenance Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Construction and Maintenance
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Construction and Maintenance We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Construction and Maintenance
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Construction and Maintenance If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Construction and Maintenance
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Construction and Maintenance "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Construction and Maintenance
