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You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Construction and Maintenance But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Construction and Maintenance
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Construction and Maintenance I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Construction and Maintenance
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein 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 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Construction and Maintenance Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Construction and Maintenance
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Construction and Maintenance Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Construction and Maintenance
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Construction and Maintenance Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Construction and Maintenance
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Construction and Maintenance "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Construction and Maintenance
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Construction and Maintenance To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Construction and Maintenance
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Construction and Maintenance A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Construction and Maintenance
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Construction and Maintenance I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Construction and Maintenance
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Construction and Maintenance In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Construction and Maintenance
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Construction and Maintenance "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Construction and Maintenance
