If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) General Federation of Trade Unions The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau General Federation of Trade Unions
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) General Federation of Trade Unions Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Agatha Christie General Federation of Trade Unions
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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) General Federation of Trade Unions "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
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"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV General Federation of Trade Unions Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses General Federation of Trade Unions
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban General Federation of Trade Unions "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro General Federation of Trade Unions Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) General Federation of Trade Unions
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 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 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. General Federation of Trade Unions What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crow My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) General Federation of Trade Unions
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show General Federation of Trade Unions Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Peter F. Drucker General Federation of Trade Unions
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous General Federation of Trade Unions When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes General Federation of Trade Unions
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) General Federation of Trade Unions Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little 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 General Federation of Trade Unions
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull General Federation of Trade Unions We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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