"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Construction and Maintenance Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Construction and Maintenance
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Construction and Maintenance "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Construction and Maintenance Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Construction and Maintenance
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger 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 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Construction and Maintenance
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Construction and Maintenance The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Construction and Maintenance
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Construction and Maintenance "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Construction and Maintenance
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Construction and Maintenance Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Construction and Maintenance
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Construction and Maintenance
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "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) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Construction and Maintenance I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Construction and Maintenance
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Construction and Maintenance Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Construction and Maintenance
"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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Construction and Maintenance The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Construction and Maintenance
