A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Embassies and Consulates There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Embassies and Consulates
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Embassies and Consulates
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Embassies and Consulates A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Embassies and Consulates
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Embassies and Consulates Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Embassies and Consulates
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "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) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Embassies and Consulates "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Embassies and Consulates
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Embassies and Consulates The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Embassies and Consulates This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) 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
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Embassies and Consulates Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Embassies and Consulates
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Embassies and Consulates Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Embassies and Consulates
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Embassies and Consulates Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Embassies and Consulates
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Embassies and Consulates "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
