"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Embassies and Consulates He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Embassies and Consulates
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Embassies and Consulates "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Embassies and Consulates
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Embassies and Consulates It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Embassies and Consulates
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Embassies and Consulates "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Embassies and Consulates
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Embassies and Consulates Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Embassies and Consulates
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Embassies and Consulates God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Embassies and Consulates
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Embassies and Consulates "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Embassies and Consulates
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Embassies and Consulates "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Embassies and Consulates
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Embassies and Consulates Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Embassies and Consulates
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Embassies and Consulates "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Embassies and Consulates
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Embassies and Consulates It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Embassies and Consulates
