Private Goes Public - Journal and writings of a gay student living in Paris.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "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) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "... 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) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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" Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
