Lesbian Archive and Information Centre - LAIC, hosted at the Women's Library in Glasgow, contains a collection of materials about lesbian lives, histories and achievements.
Outright Scotland Online - Scotland's democratic lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights organisation.
Gay-Scotland - The official website for members of the #gay-scotland IRCnet channel.
Granite Sisters - Group for woman 30 years or more in age, based in Aberdeen. Events held, activities of other related groups, and directory.
Forth Valley Gay Women - Forth Valley Gay Women's Group is a social group for lesbians and bisexual women.
Equality Network - A national Scottish LGBT campaigning and lobbying organisation, which works by a combined process of consultation, parliamentary lobbying and direct campaigning.
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "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) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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, The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual 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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
