If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Embassies and Consulates Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Embassies and Consulates
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Embassies and Consulates "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Embassies and Consulates
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Embassies and Consulates Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Embassies and Consulates
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Embassies and Consulates Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Embassies and Consulates
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Embassies and Consulates We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Embassies and Consulates
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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" 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 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Embassies and Consulates The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Embassies and Consulates
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Embassies and Consulates By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Embassies and Consulates For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Embassies and Consulates
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Embassies and Consulates
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Embassies and Consulates Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Embassies and Consulates
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Embassies and Consulates The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Embassies and Consulates
