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Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Clubs and Venues Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Clubs and Venues
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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 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 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Clubs and Venues
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Clubs and Venues Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Clubs and Venues
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Clubs and Venues If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Clubs and Venues
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Clubs and Venues The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Clubs and Venues
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Clubs and Venues Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Clubs and Venues
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Clubs and Venues Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Clubs and Venues
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Clubs and Venues "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Clubs and Venues
"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) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Clubs and Venues In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Venues
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Clubs and Venues "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Clubs and Venues
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Clubs and Venues "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Clubs and Venues
