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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Embassies and Consulates Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "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 Embassies and Consulates
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Embassies and Consulates "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Embassies and Consulates
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Embassies and Consulates
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Embassies and Consulates "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Embassies and Consulates
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Embassies and Consulates For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Embassies and Consulates
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Embassies and Consulates "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Embassies and Consulates
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Embassies and Consulates Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Embassies and Consulates
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Embassies and Consulates "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Embassies and Consulates
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Embassies and Consulates It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Embassies and Consulates
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Embassies and Consulates "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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