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I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery 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 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Young Labour "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 older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Young Labour
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Young Labour If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Young Labour
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Young Labour You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Young Labour
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Young Labour When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Young Labour
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Young Labour Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Young Labour
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Young Labour Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Young Labour
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Young Labour The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Young Labour
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Young Labour Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Young Labour
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Young Labour Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Young Labour
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Young Labour "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Young Labour
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Young Labour The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Young Labour
