"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Construction and Maintenance Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Construction and Maintenance
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Construction and Maintenance "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Construction and Maintenance
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Construction and Maintenance "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Construction and Maintenance
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Construction and Maintenance Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Construction and Maintenance
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Construction and Maintenance Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Construction and Maintenance
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Construction and Maintenance Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Construction and Maintenance
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Construction and Maintenance Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Construction and Maintenance
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Construction and Maintenance Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Construction and Maintenance
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Construction and Maintenance Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Construction and Maintenance
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Construction and Maintenance "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Construction and Maintenance I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Construction and Maintenance
