All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Embassies and Consulates Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Embassies and Consulates
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Embassies and Consulates "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Embassies and Consulates
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Embassies and Consulates "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Embassies and Consulates
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Embassies and Consulates There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Embassies and Consulates The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Embassies and Consulates
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Embassies and Consulates "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "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) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Embassies and Consulates More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Embassies and Consulates
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Embassies and Consulates "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Embassies and Consulates
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t 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 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) What's new? Most of my wife. Embassies and Consulates
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Embassies and Consulates Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 Embassies and Consulates
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Embassies and Consulates "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Embassies and Consulates
