"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Embassies and Consulates Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Embassies and Consulates
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 Embassies and Consulates To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Embassies and Consulates
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Embassies and Consulates Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Embassies and Consulates
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Embassies and Consulates Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Embassies and Consulates Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Embassies and Consulates
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Embassies and Consulates There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Embassies and Consulates
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Embassies and Consulates The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Embassies and Consulates
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Embassies and Consulates Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Embassies and Consulates I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Embassies and Consulates
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Embassies and Consulates Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Embassies and Consulates
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Embassies and Consulates "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Embassies and Consulates
