Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- G. K. Chesterton Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Henry David Thoreau Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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-- Tom Robbins Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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-- Lucille Ball Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
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-- Anton Chekhov Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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-- Oscar Wilde Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Albert Einstein Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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-- Oscar Wilde This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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-- Ed Bluestone Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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your Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I could prove God statistically.
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-- G. K. Chesterton The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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