There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Embassies and Consulates 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Embassies and Consulates
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Embassies and Consulates You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Embassies and Consulates
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Embassies and Consulates "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Embassies and Consulates
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Embassies and Consulates Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Embassies and Consulates
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Embassies and Consulates May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Embassies and Consulates "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Embassies and Consulates
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Embassies and Consulates Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Embassies and Consulates
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Embassies and Consulates
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Embassies and Consulates What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Embassies and Consulates
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Embassies and Consulates "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Embassies and Consulates
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Embassies and Consulates Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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