Queensbury Quotes

#1. Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality
Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

Ingrid Newkirk

#3. If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

Joan Rivers

#4. You have strong thighs and are very, um, handsome.

G.A. Aiken

#5. It's a guy thing. You offer to feed us and we will agree to just about anything.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#6. Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#7. Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

Charles Barkley

#8. Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Dennis Kucinich

#9. Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

Polly Shulman