People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Embassies and Consulates 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 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Embassies and Consulates
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Embassies and Consulates You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Embassies and Consulates
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Embassies and Consulates When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Embassies and Consulates
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Embassies and Consulates I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Embassies and Consulates "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Embassies and Consulates
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Embassies and Consulates There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Embassies and Consulates
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Embassies and Consulates then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Embassies and Consulates
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Embassies and Consulates "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Embassies and Consulates
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Embassies and Consulates I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Embassies and Consulates
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Embassies and Consulates Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Embassies and Consulates
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Embassies and Consulates "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Embassies and Consulates
