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. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Clubs and Lodges Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Clubs and Lodges
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Clubs and Lodges If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Lodges
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Clubs and Lodges There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Clubs and Lodges
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Clubs and Lodges "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Clubs and Lodges
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Clubs and Lodges This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Clubs and Lodges
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Clubs and Lodges Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Clubs and Lodges
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Clubs and Lodges Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Clubs and Lodges
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Clubs and Lodges Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Clubs and Lodges
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Clubs and Lodges There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Clubs and Lodges
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Clubs and Lodges Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Clubs and Lodges
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Clubs and Lodges My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Clubs and Lodges
