Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Embassies and Consulates "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Embassies and Consulates
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Embassies and Consulates CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Embassies and Consulates
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Embassies and Consulates "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Embassies and Consulates
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Embassies and Consulates I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Embassies and Consulates
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Embassies and Consulates The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Embassies and Consulates
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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 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 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Embassies and Consulates
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Embassies and Consulates "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Embassies and Consulates
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 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Embassies and Consulates The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Embassies and Consulates
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Embassies and Consulates When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Embassies and Consulates
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Embassies and Consulates While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Embassies and Consulates
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Embassies and Consulates "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Embassies and Consulates
