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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Theatre 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Theatre
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Theatre "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Theatre
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Theatre A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Theatre
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Theatre
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Theatre Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Theatre
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Theatre There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Theatre
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Theatre Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "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) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Theatre
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Theatre In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Theatre
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Theatre "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Theatre
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Theatre Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Theatre
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Theatre "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Theatre
