"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Embassies and Consulates The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Embassies and Consulates
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Embassies and Consulates Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Embassies and Consulates
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Embassies and Consulates Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Embassies and Consulates
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Embassies and Consulates "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Embassies and Consulates
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Embassies and Consulates Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Embassies and Consulates A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Embassies and Consulates
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Embassies and Consulates If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Embassies and Consulates
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Embassies and Consulates There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Embassies and Consulates
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Embassies and Consulates The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "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
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "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) 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Embassies and Consulates I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Embassies and Consulates The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Embassies and Consulates
