"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Embassies and Consulates Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Embassies and Consulates
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Embassies and Consulates I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Embassies and Consulates
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Embassies and Consulates Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Embassies and Consulates
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Embassies and Consulates Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Embassies and Consulates
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Embassies and Consulates Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Embassies and Consulates
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Embassies and Consulates
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Embassies and Consulates Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Embassies and Consulates
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Embassies and Consulates "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Embassies and Consulates
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Embassies and Consulates "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Embassies and Consulates
