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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Theatre The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Theatre
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Theatre All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Theatre
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Theatre Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Theatre
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Theatre "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) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Theatre
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Theatre
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Theatre Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Theatre
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand What's new? Most of my wife. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Theatre Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Theatre
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Theatre Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 Theatre
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb 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 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Theatre Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 Theatre
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Theatre "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Theatre
