God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Embassies and Consulates "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Embassies and Consulates
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Embassies and Consulates "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Embassies and Consulates
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Embassies and Consulates
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Embassies and Consulates "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Embassies and Consulates
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Embassies and Consulates "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) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Embassies and Consulates
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Embassies and Consulates "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Embassies and Consulates
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Embassies and Consulates The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 Embassies and Consulates
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Embassies and Consulates I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Embassies and Consulates
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Embassies and Consulates Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Embassies and Consulates
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Embassies and Consulates
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Embassies and Consulates It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Embassies and Consulates
