The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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-- Yogi Berra The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Clubs and Venues
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Clubs and Venues An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Clubs and Venues
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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
on at "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Clubs and Venues The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Clubs and Venues
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Clubs and Venues "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Clubs and Venues
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan Clubs and Venues Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Clubs and Venues
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Clubs and Venues The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Clubs and Venues
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Clubs and Venues We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
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-- Jean Kerr Clubs and Venues
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Clubs and Venues Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Venues
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Clubs and Venues Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Clubs and Venues
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Clubs and Venues The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Clubs and Venues
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Clubs and Venues blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken Clubs and Venues
