Gay Switchboard Dublin - Gay Switchboard Dublin Ltd. (GSD), a registered charity, is a voluntary body which operates a number of services to help those with issues relating to their sexuality.
Cairde - Cairde is a voluntary organisation committed to providing innovative and flexible support and advocacy services in response to the diverse needs of people affected by HIV and AIDS.
Red Ribbon Project - A voluntary non-profit organisation offering sexual health information, education and counselling in the Mid-West of Ireland.
HIV Prevention and Gay Youth - Article by Kieran Rose for the Irish National Youth Federation's Irish Youthwork Scene.
Gay HIV Strategies - New HIV Prevention Initiative for Gay Men in Ireland.
Poverty - Lesbians and Gay Men - The Economic and Social Effects of Discrimination - a report by the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network and Nexus Research Co-operative.
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Health and Welfare I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health and Welfare
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Health and Welfare In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Health and Welfare
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Health and Welfare We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Health and Welfare
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health and Welfare Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Health and Welfare
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Health and Welfare "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Health and Welfare
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Health and Welfare You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Health and Welfare
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Health and Welfare Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Health and Welfare
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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
answer. In fact, women's total ins I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Health and Welfare And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Health and Welfare
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Health and Welfare The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Health and Welfare
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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Health and Welfare 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 "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) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Health and Welfare
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Health and Welfare Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Health and Welfare
