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"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Embassies and Consulates I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Embassies and Consulates
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Embassies and Consulates When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Embassies and Consulates
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Embassies and Consulates We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Embassies and Consulates
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Embassies and Consulates Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Embassies and Consulates
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Embassies and Consulates "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Embassies and Consulates
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Embassies and Consulates A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Embassies and Consulates We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Embassies and Consulates
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Embassies and Consulates He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Embassies and Consulates
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Embassies and Consulates To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Embassies and Consulates
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Embassies and Consulates Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Embassies and Consulates
