"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual 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." ( Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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