"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Embassies and Consulates
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Embassies and Consulates Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Embassies and Consulates The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "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) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Embassies and Consulates "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Embassies and Consulates
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Embassies and Consulates 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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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) 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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Embassies and Consulates We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Embassies and Consulates
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Embassies and Consulates I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Embassies and Consulates
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Embassies and Consulates If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Embassies and Consulates
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Embassies and Consulates
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Embassies and Consulates The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "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) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Embassies and Consulates
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Embassies and Consulates The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Embassies and Consulates
