"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Embassies and Consulates >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Embassies and Consulates
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Embassies and Consulates A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Embassies and Consulates
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Embassies and Consulates Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "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) Embassies and Consulates
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Embassies and Consulates Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Embassies and Consulates
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Embassies and Consulates In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Embassies and Consulates
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Embassies and Consulates "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Embassies and Consulates
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Embassies and Consulates Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Embassies and Consulates
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates 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) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Embassies and Consulates
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Embassies and Consulates "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Embassies and Consulates
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Embassies and Consulates Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Embassies and Consulates
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Embassies and Consulates "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Embassies and Consulates
