Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Theatre 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 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 cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Theatre
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Theatre A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Theatre
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Theatre "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Theatre
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Theatre "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Theatre
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. What's new? Most of my wife. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Theatre "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Theatre
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 "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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Theatre "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Theatre
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Theatre "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Theatre "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Theatre
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Theatre 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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Theatre
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Theatre "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Theatre
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Theatre If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Theatre
