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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous 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.
-- Crowf Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
