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Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Theatre I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Theatre
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Theatre Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Theatre
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Theatre Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Theatre
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Theatre "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Theatre
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Theatre I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Theatre
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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Theatre Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Theatre
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Theatre Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Theatre
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Theatre "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Theatre
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Theatre The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Theatre
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Theatre 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Theatre
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Theatre Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Theatre
