To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Embassies and Consulates
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Embassies and Consulates Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Embassies and Consulates
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Embassies and Consulates It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Embassies and Consulates
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Embassies and Consulates Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Embassies and Consulates
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Embassies and Consulates
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Embassies and Consulates With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Embassies and Consulates
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Embassies and Consulates I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Embassies and Consulates
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Embassies and Consulates I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Embassies and Consulates
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Embassies and Consulates I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Embassies and Consulates For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Embassies and Consulates
