"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Embassies and Consulates The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Embassies and Consulates
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Embassies and Consulates 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Embassies and Consulates Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Embassies and Consulates You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Embassies and Consulates
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "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 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Embassies and Consulates
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Embassies and Consulates If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage is a rest period between romances. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Embassies and Consulates
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "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) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Embassies and Consulates A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Embassies and Consulates
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Embassies and Consulates Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Embassies and Consulates
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Embassies and Consulates
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Embassies and Consulates
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Embassies and Consulates "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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
