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Alsace - United-States Association - Franco-American organization between Alsace and America. Offers governmental and cultural exchanges, twinning activities, the Boston and Strasbourg sister city program.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Alsace Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Alsace
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Alsace "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Alsace
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Alsace 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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Alsace
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Alsace If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Alsace
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Alsace This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Alsace
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Alsace "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Alsace
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Alsace "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Alsace
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Alsace The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "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') Alsace
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Alsace Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Alsace
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Alsace blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Alsace
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Alsace Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alsace
