Pride Scotia - June 2003. Information about the march.
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Events "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Events
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Events Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Events
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Events Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Events I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Events
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Events What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Events
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Events You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Events
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Events "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Events
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Events Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Events
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Events Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Events
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Events 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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Events
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Events The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Events
