ULST LGB Society - University of Ulster's lesbian, gay and bisexual society pages.
Belfast, Queens University - A safe and relaxed atmosphere for LGB students to 'Come Out' and talk to others who have been in the same situations, and above all make gay friends. Meeting times, events, and advice.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier College Societies The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) College Societies
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham College Societies "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens College Societies
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude College Societies "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde College Societies
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea College Societies I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf College Societies
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch College Societies To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker College Societies
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth College Societies When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt College Societies
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis College Societies The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette College Societies
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex College Societies He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) College Societies
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville College Societies I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac College Societies
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward College Societies Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) College Societies
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung College Societies What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens College Societies
