Edinburgh, University of - Sexual Freedom Society. Group devoted to social change and freedom from sex rules. Information on meetings.
Glasgow University LGBT Students' Association - Social and political society made up of staff and students. Information on what they do, general meetings, mailing list and calendar.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Student Groups The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Student Groups
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Student Groups Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Student Groups
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Student Groups What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Student Groups
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Student Groups For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Student Groups
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Student Groups Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Student Groups
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Student Groups "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Student Groups
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Student Groups If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Student Groups
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Student Groups "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 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 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Student Groups
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Student Groups Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Student Groups
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Student Groups Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Student Groups
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 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 Student Groups The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Student Groups
