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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Theatre "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Theatre
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Theatre We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Theatre
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Theatre The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Theatre
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Theatre We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Theatre
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Theatre "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Theatre "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Theatre Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Theatre
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Theatre Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Theatre
"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) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Theatre We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Theatre
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Theatre There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Theatre
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Theatre "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Theatre
