"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) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Theatre "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Theatre
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Theatre Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Theatre
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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.
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Theatre I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Theatre
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Theatre Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Theatre
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) Theatre Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Theatre
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Theatre The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Theatre
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Theatre
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Theatre Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Theatre Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Theatre
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Theatre
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Theatre Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Theatre
