The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Clubs and Venues The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Clubs and Venues
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Clubs and Venues It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Clubs and Venues
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Clubs and Venues Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Clubs and Venues
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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Clubs and Venues To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Clubs and Venues
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Clubs and Venues Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Clubs and Venues
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Clubs and Venues "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Clubs and Venues
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Clubs and Venues Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Clubs and Venues
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Venues Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Clubs and Venues
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Clubs and Venues ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Clubs and Venues
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Venues Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clubs and Venues
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Venues If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Clubs and Venues
