United States - United States Embassy in Chisinau. Includes policy statements about the U.S. position on Moldova's Trans-Dniestrian conflict.
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Foreign Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Foreign
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Foreign Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Foreign
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Foreign "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Foreign
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Foreign Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Foreign
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Foreign "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Foreign
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Foreign Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Foreign
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Foreign It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Marriage is a rest period between romances. Foreign
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Foreign Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foreign
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Foreign "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foreign
"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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) Foreign "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Foreign
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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Foreign There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Foreign
