If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
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 Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
