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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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Clubs and Lodges America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Clubs and Lodges
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Clubs and Lodges The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Clubs and Lodges
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Clubs and Lodges The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Clubs and Lodges
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Clubs and Lodges I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald My other wife is beautiful. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Clubs and Lodges
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi 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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Clubs and Lodges The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Clubs and Lodges
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Clubs and Lodges The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Clubs and Lodges
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Clubs and Lodges Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Clubs and Lodges
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Clubs and Lodges "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Clubs and Lodges
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Clubs and Lodges This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Clubs and Lodges
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Clubs and Lodges When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Lodges
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Clubs and Lodges 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 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Clubs and Lodges
