A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at west 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at west 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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“‘Do you know the way to the Empire State Building, or should I just go fuck myself?”
“(I will gladly pay you Tuesday for) A hamburger today”
“(Not for) All the tea in China”
“(When you) Get a hunch, bet a bunch”
“72 hours later, you’re hungry again” (joke about eating deli food)
“86” (not from Chumley’s or Empire State Building)
“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand”
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it”
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money”
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee”
“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt”
“A conservative man is a man who sits and thinks. mostly sits”
“A consultant is someone who borrows your watch to tell you the time, and then keeps the watch”
“A day late and a dollar short”
“A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit”
“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth” (Kinsley gaffe)
“A guy walks into a bar…” (bar jokes)
“A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel”
“A liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own”
“A long term investment is a short term investment that failed”
“A man takes a drink…then the drink takes the man”
“A market that rallies on bad news could signal a bottom’ (Wall Street adage)
“A morning without coffee is like sleep”
“A neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality”
“A politician is someone who will lay down your life for his country”
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose your job”
“A rising tide lifts all boats” (Wall Street proverb)
“A rolling loan gathers no loss” (banking adage)
“A statesman is a politician who is dead”
“A stew boiled is a stew spoiled”
“A stock doesn’t know where it has been” or “A stock doesn’t know you own it” (Wall Street proverb)
“A stock is worth what someone is willing to pay for it” (Wall Street adage)
“A watched pot never boils”
“A woman’s place is in the kitchen”
“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder”
“Agree with me on 9 of 12 issues, vote for me. Agree on 12 of 12, see a psychiatrist” (Ed Koch)
“Alderman, your saloon is on fire!”
“All politics is local”
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
“All the News That’s Fit to Eat” (The Food Section)
“All the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair”
“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening”
“Allagaroo!” (CCNY cheer)
“Always Be Closing” ("ABC” of selling)
“Always Real, Always Harlem” (Coca-Cola slogan)
“America is great because she is good”
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”
“An apple for (the) teacher” (apple-polisher)
“An apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze”
“An ignorant thief robs a freight-car. An educated thief steals the whole railroad.”
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