The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Embassies and Consulates The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Embassies and Consulates
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Embassies and Consulates
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Embassies and Consulates Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Embassies and Consulates
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Embassies and Consulates I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Embassies and Consulates
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Embassies and Consulates It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "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) Embassies and Consulates
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Embassies and Consulates Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Embassies and Consulates
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Embassies and Consulates What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Embassies and Consulates Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Embassies and Consulates "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Embassies and Consulates
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Embassies and Consulates Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Embassies and Consulates
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Embassies and Consulates What's new? Most of my wife. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Embassies and Consulates
