"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "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) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
