We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Theater 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Theater
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Theater If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Theater
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Theater I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Theater
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Theater Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Theater
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Theater We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Theater
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Theater His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Theater
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theater Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theater
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Theater If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Theater
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins What's new? Most of my wife. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Theater Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theater
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Theater "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Theater
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Theater There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Theater
