Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Embassies and Consulates There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Embassies and Consulates
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Embassies and Consulates "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Embassies and Consulates
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Embassies and Consulates Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Embassies and Consulates
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Embassies and Consulates .. 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 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Embassies and Consulates
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Embassies and Consulates The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Embassies and Consulates
"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) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Embassies and Consulates
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Embassies and Consulates He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Embassies and Consulates
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Embassies and Consulates 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, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Embassies and Consulates
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Embassies and Consulates What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Embassies and Consulates
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Embassies and Consulates Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Embassies and Consulates
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Embassies and Consulates "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Embassies and Consulates
