"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
