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Engineers Tool Room - Suppliers of engineering tools and workshop equipment including lathes and milling machines. Includes price list.
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' 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 Business and Economy The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Business and Economy
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Business and Economy
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Business and Economy It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "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 Business and Economy
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Business and Economy Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Business and Economy The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Business and Economy It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Business and Economy
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Business and Economy
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Business and Economy "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Business and Economy Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
