That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Embassies and Consulates To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Embassies and Consulates
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Embassies and Consulates It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Embassies and Consulates
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Embassies and Consulates In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Embassies and Consulates
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 Embassies and Consulates Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Embassies and Consulates
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Embassies and Consulates Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Embassies and Consulates
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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 Embassies and Consulates In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Embassies and Consulates
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Embassies and Consulates Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Embassies and Consulates
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Embassies and Consulates I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Embassies and Consulates
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Embassies and Consulates Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Embassies and Consulates
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Embassies and Consulates Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Embassies and Consulates
