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My other wife is beautiful. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Construction and Maintenance While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Construction and Maintenance
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Construction and Maintenance I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Construction and Maintenance
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Construction and Maintenance I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Construction and Maintenance
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Construction and Maintenance Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Construction and Maintenance
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Construction and Maintenance Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Construction and Maintenance
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Construction and Maintenance I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Construction and Maintenance
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Construction and Maintenance "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Construction and Maintenance
"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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Construction and Maintenance "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Construction and Maintenance
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Construction and Maintenance "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) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Construction and Maintenance
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Construction and Maintenance True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Construction and Maintenance
