" Dinner theater is anti-culture. "

John Simon

" Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. "

Cyril Connolly (1903 – 1974)

" Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled. "

Count Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna

" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "

Will Rogers US humorist & showman (1879 – 1935)

" People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 – 1991)

" You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. "

Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923 Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

" Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create. "

Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.

" All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. "

Carl Sagan US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 – 1996)

" First things first, but not necessarily in that order. "

Doctor Who

" If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. "

Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)

" I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. "

Stephen Roberts

" The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. "

James Bryce

" All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. "

Bobby Knight US basketball coach (1940 – )

" Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

" If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen. "

Dostoyevsky

" The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. "

Oscar Arias Sanchez Costa Rican politician (1941 – )

" We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "

Albert Einstein US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

" To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. "

George Woodberry

" Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. "

Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael

" Learn to obey before you command. "

Solon Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC – 559 BC)

" Reading musses up my mind. "

Henry Ford US automobile industrialist (1863 – 1947)

" Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. "

Aldous Huxley English critic & novelist (1894 – 1963)

" No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law? "

Carl L. Becker

" Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. "

Miyamoto Musashi

" Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. "

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Chapter 7

" A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. "

Joey Adams

" In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior. "

Katherine Hepburn

" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "

Pierre Corneille French dramatist (1606 – 1684)

" The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can

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