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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Embassies and Consulates This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Embassies and Consulates
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Embassies and Consulates 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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 Embassies and Consulates
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Embassies and Consulates
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Embassies and Consulates Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Embassies and Consulates
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Embassies and Consulates Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Embassies and Consulates
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Embassies and Consulates Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Embassies and Consulates
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Embassies and Consulates "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Embassies and Consulates Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Embassies and Consulates
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Embassies and Consulates My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Embassies and Consulates
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Embassies and Consulates Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Embassies and Consulates
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "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) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Embassies and Consulates A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Embassies and Consulates
