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"There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" »Jim Lehrer
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car." »Edward De Bono
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"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me." »Hugh Prather
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." »Harriet
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"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to." »Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
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"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse
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"(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids." »Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
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"When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools." »William Shakespeare
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"If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting" »Unknown
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"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." »Sean O'Casey
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"When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools." »William Shakespeare
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"Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery." »Unknown
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"If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script" »Vu Quyen
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"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." »Paul Beatty
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"The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism." »Norman Brenner
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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." »Charles De Gaulle
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"On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone." »Janis Joplin
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"The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air." »Julie Arabi
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"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction." »William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
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"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove." »Cardinal John Newman
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"If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls." »Rob Brown
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"Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life." »Oscar Wilde
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"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." »Fran Lebowitz
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"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault." »Paul S. Winalski
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"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else." »Tom Stoppard
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"The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying." »Edward Hoagland
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"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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