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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Man and wife make one fool. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Historical Re-enactment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Historical Re-enactment
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Historical Re-enactment If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Historical Re-enactment
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Historical Re-enactment Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Historical Re-enactment
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Historical Re-enactment Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Historical Re-enactment
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Historical Re-enactment "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Historical Re-enactment
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Historical Re-enactment "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Historical Re-enactment
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Historical Re-enactment All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Historical Re-enactment
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 Historical Re-enactment A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Historical Re-enactment
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Historical Re-enactment Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Historical Re-enactment
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Historical Re-enactment Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Historical Re-enactment
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Historical Re-enactment Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Historical Re-enactment
