His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Labour Clubs Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Labour Clubs
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Labour Clubs "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Labour Clubs
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Labour Clubs Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder May you never leave your marriage alive. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Labour Clubs
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Labour Clubs "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Labour Clubs
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) 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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Labour Clubs 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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Labour Clubs
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Labour Clubs Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Labour Clubs
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "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) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Labour Clubs Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Labour Clubs
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Labour Clubs The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Labour Clubs
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Labour Clubs Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Labour Clubs
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Labour Clubs Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Labour Clubs
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Labour Clubs Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Labour Clubs
