Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Embassies and Consulates Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Embassies and Consulates
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 "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Embassies and Consulates your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Embassies and Consulates
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Embassies and Consulates "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 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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) Embassies and Consulates
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Embassies and Consulates Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Embassies and Consulates
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Embassies and Consulates Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Embassies and Consulates
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Embassies and Consulates "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Embassies and Consulates
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Embassies and Consulates
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Embassies and Consulates "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "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) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Embassies and Consulates "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Embassies and Consulates
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Embassies and Consulates
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Embassies and Consulates "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Embassies and Consulates
