Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Embassies and Consulates Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Embassies and Consulates
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Embassies and Consulates Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Embassies and Consulates
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Embassies and Consulates The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Embassies and Consulates
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Embassies and Consulates
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Embassies and Consulates He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Embassies and Consulates
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Embassies and Consulates "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Embassies and Consulates
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Embassies and Consulates "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Embassies and Consulates
"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) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Embassies and Consulates The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Embassies and Consulates
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. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Embassies and Consulates blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Embassies and Consulates
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Embassies and Consulates A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Embassies and Consulates
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Embassies and Consulates "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Embassies and Consulates
