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"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Theatre Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Theatre The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Theatre
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Theatre No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Theatre
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Theatre Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Theatre
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Theatre Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Theatre
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Theatre There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Theatre
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Theatre The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Theatre
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Theatre blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) 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 Theatre
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Theatre Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Theatre
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Theatre You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Theatre
