The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Embassies and Consulates "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Embassies and Consulates
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Embassies and Consulates Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Embassies and Consulates
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Embassies and Consulates Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Embassies and Consulates
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Embassies and Consulates "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Embassies and Consulates You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Embassies and Consulates
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Embassies and Consulates
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Embassies and Consulates I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Embassies and Consulates
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Embassies and Consulates Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Embassies and Consulates
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Embassies and Consulates We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Embassies and Consulates If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Embassies and Consulates
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Embassies and Consulates Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Embassies and Consulates
