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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Theater Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Theater
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Theater then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Theater
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Theater Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Theater
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Theater The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Theater
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Theater "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Theater
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Theater If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Theater
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Theater The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "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 Theater
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Theater I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Theater
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Theater Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Theater
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Theater Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Theater
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Theater Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Theater