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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Theatre Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Theatre
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Theatre Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Theatre
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Theatre I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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
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They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Theatre The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Theatre
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Theatre Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Theatre
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Theatre "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Theatre
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Theatre I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Theatre
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Theatre Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Theatre
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Theatre Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Theatre
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Theatre Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Theatre
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Theatre America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Theatre
