I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Embassies and Consulates Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Embassies and Consulates A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Embassies and Consulates
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Embassies and Consulates Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Embassies and Consulates
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Embassies and Consulates
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Embassies and Consulates "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Embassies and Consulates
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Embassies and Consulates Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Embassies and Consulates
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Embassies and Consulates The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Embassies and Consulates
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Embassies and Consulates Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Embassies and Consulates
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Embassies and Consulates It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Embassies and Consulates
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Embassies and Consulates The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Embassies and Consulates
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Embassies and Consulates It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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
