You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Theatre Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Theatre
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Theatre Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Theatre
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Theatre 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 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Theatre
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach 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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Theatre Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Theatre
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Theatre "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Theatre
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Theatre Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "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' Theatre
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Man and wife make one fool. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Theatre "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Theatre
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Theatre In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Theatre
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Theatre One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Theatre
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Theatre The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Theatre
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Theatre A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Theatre
