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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Theater Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Theater
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Theater Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 Theater
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Theater Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Theater
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Theater By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Theater
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Theater My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Theater
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Theater "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Theater
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Theater If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Theater
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Theater 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Theater
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Theater Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Theater
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Theater Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Theater
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Theater blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Theater
