OutRage Briefing: Adoption - Campaign site includes the current status of legislation, position statement, timeline, press releases, press clippings and web resources for further reading.
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Adoption and Children Bill The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 Adoption and Children Bill
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Adoption and Children Bill "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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Adoption and Children Bill
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Adoption and Children Bill "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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Adoption and Children Bill
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Adoption and Children Bill Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Adoption and Children Bill
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Adoption and Children Bill A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Adoption and Children Bill
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Adoption and Children Bill "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Adoption and Children Bill
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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Adoption and Children Bill The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Adoption and Children Bill
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Adoption and Children Bill Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Adoption and Children Bill
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Adoption and Children Bill There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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, Adoption and Children Bill
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Adoption and Children Bill "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "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 Adoption and Children Bill
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Adoption and Children Bill Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Adoption and Children Bill
