Theatre in English - Guide to English speaking amateur theatre groups with an online ticket office and a weekly radio show.
Markus Zohner Theater Compagnie - Progressive theatre company which tours worldwide. Tours and projects, staff, and theatre academy. In English, Italian and German.
Theater, Opera, Ballet - Article provided by the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington which outlines the development of Swiss theatre and the current state of play.
Zurich's Cynical Theatre Guide - Theatre reviews, surveys of the present and past seasons, commentaries on theatre festivals, artistic theatre profiles, and links to theatre sites. In German and English.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Theater The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Theater
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Theater "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Theater
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Theater Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Theater
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Theater Man and wife make one fool. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Theater A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Theater
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Theater It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Theater
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Theater The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Theater
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Theater "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Theater
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Theater 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Theater
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Theater "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Theater
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Theater I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Theater
