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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Clubs and Venues "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Venues
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Clubs and Venues A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Clubs and Venues
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Clubs and Venues Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Clubs and Venues
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Clubs and Venues You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
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-- G. K. Chesterton It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Clubs and Venues
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Clubs and Venues "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Clubs and Venues
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Clubs and Venues "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Clubs and Venues
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Clubs and Venues When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
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A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Clubs and Venues I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Clubs and Venues
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Clubs and Venues Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Clubs and Venues When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Clubs and Venues
