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Monday, February 16, 2004

She takes a cigarette from a cigarette box and dangles it for a light, but the director cuts away.
—Ann Sheridan, in Winter Carnival, 1939

Radio has no future.
— Lord Kelvin, ca. 1897

Hanover climate is as capricious as a Smith girl on a Dartmouth sleigh ride.
—Holiday Magazine, 1948

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
—George Jean Nathan

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
—Friedrich Nietzsche

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
— Samuel Pepys

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
—Lord Byron

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
—George Gordon

At every party there are two kinds of people—those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
—Ann Landers

Dartmouth likes company over Winter Carnival, especially if it is cute and wears skirts.
—Roger S. Brown, DOC President, 1948

Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.
— Ogden Nash

The civilized world has spent more than a thousand years trying to limit the destructiveness of war. Drawing a distinction between civilians and combatants has been an essential part of this process. But terrorism aims to erase that distinction.
—Colin Powell

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
—Samuel Butler

No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
—Desiderius Erasmus

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
—Unknown

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
—Oscar Wilde

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
—Fred Allen

I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
—Sir Max Beerbohm

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
—Dorothy Parker

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
—Evelyn Waugh

No man does right by a woman at a party.
—Harry Golden

To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of mental development .
—Willie Brown

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