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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Nightlife Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nightlife
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Nightlife When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Nightlife
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Nightlife Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Nightlife
"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 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Nightlife Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Nightlife
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Nightlife Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Nightlife
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Nightlife 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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Nightlife
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Nightlife 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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Nightlife
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Nightlife Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Nightlife
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Nightlife If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Nightlife
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Nightlife The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nightlife
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Nightlife People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Nightlife
