"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "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) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
