"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 Theatre The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Theatre
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Theatre "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Theatre
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Theatre Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Theatre
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Theatre A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Theatre
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Theatre 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Theatre
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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Theatre Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Theatre
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Theatre "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Theatre
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Theatre It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx 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
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What's new? Most of my wife. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Theatre "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Theatre
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Theatre
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Theatre "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Theatre
