The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Embassies and Consulates Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Embassies and Consulates
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Embassies and Consulates Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Embassies and Consulates
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Embassies and Consulates I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Embassies and Consulates
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Embassies and Consulates "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Embassies and Consulates
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Embassies and Consulates
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Embassies and Consulates 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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Embassies and Consulates
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Embassies and Consulates A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Embassies and Consulates
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Embassies and Consulates "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Embassies and Consulates
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Embassies and Consulates A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Embassies and Consulates
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "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) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Embassies and Consulates "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Embassies and Consulates
