Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Embassies and Consulates Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Embassies and Consulates "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Embassies and Consulates
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Embassies and Consulates Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Embassies and Consulates
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Embassies and Consulates
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Embassies and Consulates
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Embassies and Consulates All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Embassies and Consulates
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Embassies and Consulates Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein 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 Embassies and Consulates
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Embassies and Consulates Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Embassies and Consulates Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Embassies and Consulates
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "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) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe 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 I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Embassies and Consulates
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Embassies and Consulates It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Embassies and Consulates
