"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Embassies and Consulates "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Embassies and Consulates
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Embassies and Consulates A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Embassies and Consulates
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Embassies and Consulates 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 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Embassies and Consulates
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Embassies and Consulates 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Embassies and Consulates
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Embassies and Consulates Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Embassies and Consulates
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Embassies and Consulates To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Embassies and Consulates
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Embassies and Consulates "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Embassies and Consulates
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Embassies and Consulates Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Embassies and Consulates
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Embassies and Consulates I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Embassies and Consulates
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Embassies and Consulates "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Embassies and Consulates
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Embassies and Consulates "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates
