The Rare Oul' Times - A play about Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh, as they discuss their lives to date in 1950's Dublin. Written by Ken McElroy. Performed by The Nomadic Theatre Company.
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Theatre Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Theatre
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Theatre Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Theatre
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Theatre We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Theatre
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Theatre Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Theatre
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Theatre "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Theatre
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Theatre "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Theatre
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Theatre Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Theatre
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Theatre Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Theatre
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Theatre
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous 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 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Theatre With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Theatre
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) 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 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Theatre We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Theatre
