Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Man and wife make one fool. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
