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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Theater Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Theater
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Theater The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Theater
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Theater I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Theater
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Theater For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Theater
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Theater If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Theater
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Theater Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Theater
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Theater To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "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) Theater
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Theater "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Theater
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Theater Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Theater If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Theater
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Theater There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Theater
