"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Embassies and Consulates We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Embassies and Consulates
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Embassies and Consulates We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Embassies and Consulates
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Embassies and Consulates The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Embassies and Consulates
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Embassies and Consulates If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Embassies and Consulates
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "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) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Embassies and Consulates There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Embassies and Consulates The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Embassies and Consulates Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Embassies and Consulates
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Embassies and Consulates
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Embassies and Consulates "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Embassies and Consulates
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Embassies and Consulates Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Embassies and Consulates
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Embassies and Consulates If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Embassies and Consulates
