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I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Clubs and Societies There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Clubs and Societies
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "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 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Clubs and Societies One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Clubs and Societies
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Clubs and Societies I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "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) 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
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Clubs and Societies Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Societies
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. 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 "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Societies 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 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Clubs and Societies
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Clubs and Societies The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Clubs and Societies
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Clubs and Societies It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Clubs and Societies "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Societies
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Clubs and Societies Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Societies
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Clubs and Societies One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Clubs and Societies
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "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) Clubs and Societies Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
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