You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Embassies and Consulates Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Embassies and Consulates
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Embassies and Consulates
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Embassies and Consulates The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Embassies and Consulates
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Embassies and Consulates Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Embassies and Consulates
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Embassies and Consulates Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Embassies and Consulates
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 like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Embassies and Consulates 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. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Embassies and Consulates
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Embassies and Consulates
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin 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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Embassies and Consulates Marriage is a rest period between romances. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Embassies and Consulates
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Embassies and Consulates
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Embassies and Consulates 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 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
