History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "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) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) 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 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
