Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Theatre "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Theatre
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Theatre History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Theatre
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "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 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Theatre Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Theatre
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Theatre The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Theatre
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Theatre Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Theatre
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Theatre "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Theatre
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Theatre You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Theatre
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Theatre "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Theatre
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Theatre Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Theatre
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty 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 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Theatre Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Theatre
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Theatre "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Theatre
