Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?
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PATRICK DENNIS No, Virginia, there is no Auntie Mame, she is a distillation and a moonbeam and nothing more.
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JAMES TURRELL One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I do not pilfer victory.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath plac...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against th...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am not afraid of a pack of lions being led by a sheep, but I am afriad of a pack of sheep led by a...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimon...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I am not afraid of any army of lions led by a sheep,I am afraid of any army of sheep led by a lion
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There are no more worlds to conquer!
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CHUCK DARBY Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great Butcher
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does Aristotle his teache...
O ANNA NIEMUS I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.
RICHARD GERE Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that...
ARRIAN In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Ac...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Auntie, Auntie, the cat is right behind you.
GANDALF Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Can you imagine what Nixon would have been like had somebody loved him? He would have been a great, ...
HENRY KISSINGER From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a...
EDGAR ALLAN POE jesus died for everyone, not just straight people
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CHARLES MERRILL I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit...
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XUN KUANG They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an a...
ROMAN PAYNE Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Home...
ROMAN PAYNE Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the sa...
PAGET BREWSTER If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
PLUTARCH From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bri...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Straight Americans need ... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand, to begin with,...
BRUCE BAWER Apparently, lesbians and gay men who have no desire "to become queer" have failed at a task that is ...
BRUCE BAWER Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to t...
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CATHERINE THE GREAT It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT
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BRUCE CAMPBELL Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
BRUCE LEE Communism is like one big phone company.
LENNY BRUCE For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did a...
LENNY BRUCE The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can
LENNY BRUCE America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr...
BRUCE JACKSON Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ...
BRUCE WILLIS Conceit is God's gift to little men
BRUCE BARTON In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
MICHAEL BRUCE Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who i...
LENNY BRUCE The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem...
LENNY BRUCE Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
LENNY BRUCE The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
BRUCE LEE It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
BRUCE LEE Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers
BRUCE FROEMMING