"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Theatre 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've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Theatre
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Theatre "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Theatre
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Theatre When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Theatre
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Theatre How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Theatre
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Theatre It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Theatre
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Theatre I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Theatre
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Theatre The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Theatre
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Theatre Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Theatre
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Theatre Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Theatre
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Theatre >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Theatre
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Theatre Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Theatre
