Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Theatre Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Theatre
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Theatre "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Theatre God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Theatre
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Theatre 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 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Theatre
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Theatre Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Theatre
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Theatre The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Theatre
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Theatre To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Theatre
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Man and wife make one fool. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Theatre Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Theatre
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Theatre Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Theatre
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Theatre
