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You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Theatre The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Theatre
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Theatre An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Theatre
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Theatre It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Theatre
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Theatre Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Theatre
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Theatre If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 Theatre
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Theatre The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Theatre
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Theatre The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Theatre
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Theatre You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Theatre
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Theatre It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Theatre
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Theatre Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theatre
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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 One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Theatre
