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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Clubs and Venues I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Clubs and Venues
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Clubs and Venues "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Clubs and Venues
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Clubs and Venues "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Clubs and Venues
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Clubs and Venues "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Clubs and Venues
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Clubs and Venues Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Clubs and Venues
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Clubs and Venues I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "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
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Clubs and Venues
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Clubs and Venues Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Clubs and Venues
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Clubs and Venues The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Venues
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Clubs and Venues "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Clubs and Venues
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 Clubs and Venues "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clubs and Venues
