I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Embassies and Consulates They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Embassies and Consulates "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Embassies and Consulates
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Embassies and Consulates I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Embassies and Consulates
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Embassies and Consulates It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Embassies and Consulates
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Embassies and Consulates If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Embassies and Consulates
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Embassies and Consulates When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) 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 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Embassies and Consulates Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Embassies and Consulates
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Embassies and Consulates Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Embassies and Consulates
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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Embassies and Consulates What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Embassies and Consulates We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Embassies and Consulates
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Embassies and Consulates It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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