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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Theatre "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Theatre
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Theatre 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Theatre
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Theatre She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Theatre
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Theatre "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Theatre
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Theatre "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Theatre
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Theatre Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Theatre
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Theatre "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Theatre "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theatre
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "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) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 Theatre "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Theatre
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Theatre If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Theatre
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Theatre You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Theatre
