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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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Theatre "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Theatre
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Theatre You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Theatre "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Theatre
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Theatre "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Theatre
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Theatre My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Theatre
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Theatre "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Theatre
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Theatre 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Theatre
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Theatre 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Theatre
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 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Theatre Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a rest period between romances. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Theatre
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Theatre The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Theatre
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Theatre If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Theatre
