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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Embassies and Consulates The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Embassies and Consulates
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Embassies and Consulates A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Embassies and Consulates
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Embassies and Consulates There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Embassies and Consulates
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Embassies and Consulates I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Embassies and Consulates
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Embassies and Consulates No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Embassies and Consulates
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Embassies and Consulates Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Embassies and Consulates
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Embassies and Consulates Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Embassies and Consulates Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Embassies and Consulates
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Embassies and Consulates "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Embassies and Consulates
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "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 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Embassies and Consulates "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Embassies and Consulates
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Embassies and Consulates I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Embassies and Consulates
