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Bright Colours Only - Theatrical event that exhumes the death industry and resurrects the dying wake tradition. Written, directed and performed by Pauline Goldsmith.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Theatre The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Theatre
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Theatre Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Theatre
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Theatre
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Theatre Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Theatre
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "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, ignorance, g A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Theatre "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Theatre
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Theatre Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Theatre
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Theatre If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Theatre
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Theatre "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Theatre
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Theatre He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Theatre
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Theatre The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Theatre
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Theatre Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Theatre
