"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Embassies and Consulates "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Embassies and Consulates
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Embassies and Consulates For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Embassies and Consulates
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Embassies and Consulates "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is a rest period between romances. Embassies and Consulates
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Embassies and Consulates Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Embassies and Consulates Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Embassies and Consulates Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Embassies and Consulates
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Embassies and Consulates "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Embassies and Consulates
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Embassies and Consulates Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Embassies and Consulates
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Embassies and Consulates To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Embassies and Consulates There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Embassies and Consulates
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Embassies and Consulates Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Embassies and Consulates
