The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Embassies and Consulates When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Embassies and Consulates There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Embassies and Consulates
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Embassies and Consulates Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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. Embassies and Consulates
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Embassies and Consulates
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Embassies and Consulates "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Embassies and Consulates
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Embassies and Consulates "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Embassies and Consulates
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Embassies and Consulates Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Embassies and Consulates
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Embassies and Consulates "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Embassies and Consulates
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Embassies and Consulates blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Embassies and Consulates
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Embassies and Consulates The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Embassies and Consulates
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Embassies and Consulates Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Embassies and Consulates
