Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Embassies and Consulates After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Embassies and Consulates
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) 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 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Embassies and Consulates The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Embassies and Consulates
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Embassies and Consulates To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Embassies and Consulates Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Embassies and Consulates
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Embassies and Consulates The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Embassies and Consulates
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Embassies and Consulates
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Embassies and Consulates "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Embassies and Consulates
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole 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 Embassies and Consulates "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Embassies and Consulates
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Embassies and Consulates "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Embassies and Consulates
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Embassies and Consulates There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Embassies and Consulates
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Embassies and Consulates
