My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Embassies and Consulates Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Embassies and Consulates Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Embassies and Consulates
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Embassies and Consulates This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Embassies and Consulates
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "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) "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) Embassies and Consulates "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Embassies and Consulates
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Embassies and Consulates Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Embassies and Consulates
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Embassies and Consulates Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Embassies and Consulates
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "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) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Embassies and Consulates Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Embassies and Consulates
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Embassies and Consulates Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Embassies and Consulates
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Embassies and Consulates The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Embassies and Consulates
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Embassies and Consulates To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Embassies and Consulates If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Embassies and Consulates
