UNIFI - One of the largest white collar unions in Britain and the largest specialist finance sector union in the world.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell UNIFI Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin UNIFI
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "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 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) UNIFI What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown UNIFI
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) UNIFI Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe UNIFI
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell UNIFI The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. UNIFI
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln UNIFI The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi UNIFI
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince UNIFI Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru UNIFI
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. UNIFI If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from UNIFI
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 UNIFI You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman UNIFI
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara UNIFI Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince UNIFI
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) UNIFI Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton UNIFI
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) UNIFI Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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