All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats 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 The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "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 The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason 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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a rest period between romances. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "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." If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"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) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "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 Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
