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"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Theatre blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Theatre
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Theatre I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Theatre
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Theatre If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Theatre I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Theatre
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Theatre
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Theatre "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Theatre
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Theatre Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Theatre Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Theatre
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "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." In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Theatre 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Theatre
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Theatre "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Theatre
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Theatre "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Theatre
