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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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-- Charles Caleb Colton Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "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 National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "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) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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