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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Embassies and Consulates
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Embassies and Consulates Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Embassies and Consulates
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Embassies and Consulates
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Embassies and Consulates The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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
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.
-- Crowf Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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 Embassies and Consulates
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Embassies and Consulates There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Embassies and Consulates
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Embassies and Consulates
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Embassies and Consulates When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Embassies and Consulates
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Embassies and Consulates "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "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) Embassies and Consulates
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Embassies and Consulates "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Embassies and Consulates
