Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Clubs and Venues "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Clubs and Venues
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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 Unhappy Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Clubs and Venues You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Clubs and Venues
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Clubs and Venues Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Clubs and Venues
"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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Clubs and Venues Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Clubs and Venues
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Clubs and Venues "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Clubs and Venues
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Clubs and Venues If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Clubs and Venues
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "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) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Clubs and Venues MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Clubs and Venues
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Clubs and Venues Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Clubs and Venues
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Clubs and Venues Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Clubs and Venues
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Clubs and Venues It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Clubs and Venues
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Clubs and Venues 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 the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
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