"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) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
