Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Embassies and Consulates If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Embassies and Consulates "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Embassies and Consulates
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) 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
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Embassies and Consulates
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Embassies and Consulates Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Embassies and Consulates
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Embassies and Consulates Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Embassies and Consulates
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Embassies and Consulates I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Embassies and Consulates
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Embassies and Consulates My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Embassies and Consulates
"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) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Embassies and Consulates We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Embassies and Consulates
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Embassies and Consulates "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Embassies and Consulates
