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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
