What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Embassies and Consulates We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Embassies and Consulates
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Embassies and Consulates Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Embassies and Consulates
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Embassies and Consulates "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Embassies and Consulates
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "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) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Embassies and Consulates "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Embassies and Consulates
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Embassies and Consulates Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Embassies and Consulates
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "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) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Embassies and Consulates "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Embassies and Consulates
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Embassies and Consulates Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Embassies and Consulates
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Embassies and Consulates My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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 "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) 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Embassies and Consulates
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Embassies and Consulates The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Embassies and Consulates
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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Embassies and Consulates A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Embassies and Consulates
