WORDS OF WISDOM
1. "El hombre es como el oso: mientras mas feo mas hermoso (Man is like a bear: the uglier, the prettier)." COLOMBIAN SAYING
2. "Damn the preachers! the smooth-faced, self-satisfied preachers. (By their standards), probably nine-tenths of the universe is depraved - probably nine-tenths denied a right in the scheme of things - which is ridiculous." WALT WHITMAN
3. "Risk for risk, for myself I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumours and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry." JUDGE LEARNED HAND (1952)
4. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor from sleeping under bridges, begging in the streets, and stealing bread." ANATOLE FRANCE
5. "Most gay people are bourgeois... They're apolitical or politically conservative and don't care about other minorities. They just want to escape in ghettos of sex, drugs and vanity." ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM
6. "No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time." EMMA GOLDMAN
7. "But to sell a brain is worse than to sell a body, for when the body seller has sold her momentary pleasure she takes good care that the matter shall end there. But when a brain seller has sold her brain, its anaemic, vicious and diseased progeny are let loose upon the world to infect and corrupt and sow the seeds of disease in others." VIRGINIA WOOLF, from "THREE GUINEAS" (p. 290 of Oxford Classics two-fer edition of A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN/THREE GUINEAS)
8. "Stereotypes are a source of great strength. Sissies, drag queens, bull dykes - these are our heroes. They are the ones who step out into the world and say, 'We are here.' I disagree with banishing the stereotypes." JOHN RECHY
9. "I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the masses -- you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks." EUGENE V. DEBS
10. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1953)
11. "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." REBECCA WEST
12. "Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
13. "The typical middle class interpreter of folk music makes his guitar sound like a metronome, without timbre changes and without percussive and loud-soft tone contrasts. He is a friendly guy. He likes everybody. He smiles a lot. He wants you to like him. The hell with him." JOHN FAHEY
14. "Heaven and hell do not exist. Well, not in the traditional sense. There are no cloud landscapes populated by white people in robes playing harps. To most of us, that would be Hell, not Heaven. Likewise, there is no labyrinth of rooms deep in the earth filled with demons, cesspools and burning embers...the groans of the multitudes echoing off the walls. Those are discos." DAVID BYRNE
15. "...the Laws of Indies of 1542...proclaimed the Indians to be proprietors of the lands of the New World, while the settlers held only temporary concessions to them. The violations of this statute are so numerous and evident that any modern auditor can not only spot them but quickly arrive at the conclusion that Latin America was founded on a dizzying contradiction between law and practice, which in effect established from the very beginning a divorce between the REAL country and the LEGAL country." CARLOS FUENTES
16. "I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse." SAMUEL JOHNSON
17. "I liked punk because they knew what they were doing. They were trying to destroy the corporate message of rock, saying, 'It belongs to me. It doesn't belong to you. Rock and roll is what I feel, not what you can sell. It's what I think, what I feel.' Corporate doesn't like the fact that music belongs to the artist. It should be able to be cloned, manufactured and sold. They don't like the idea of someone saying, 'Music is this. It's one chord with a broken string.'" PF SLOAN
18. "The first time I went into a gay bar, I thought, I might be queer, but I'm not this." JOHN WATERS
19. "There are better ways to say 'The workers must seize the means of production' than over a 4/4 beat." CRAIG FLANAGAN of GOD IS MY CO-PILOT
20. "There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value to its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets." CHARLES DICKENS
WORDS OF WISDOM EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT DOGS (THANK YOU, BILL)
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." ANONYMOUS
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
wonderful." ANN LANDERS
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went." WILL ROGERS
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
BEN WILLIAMS
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." JOSH BILLINGS
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." ANDREW A. ROONEY
"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made." M. FACKLAM
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate." SIGMUND FREUD
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have
known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons..." JAMES THURBER
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down." ROBERT BENCHLEY
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious
cult." RITA RUDNER
"Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are
often continued in the next yard." DAVE BARRY
"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog." FRANKLIN P. JONES
"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can...That's almost $21.00 in dog money." JOE WEINSTEIN
"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend; inside of a dog,it's too dark to read." GROUCHO MARX
"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back
from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a
cow.... They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!" ANNE TYLER
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
