Kuwait, Yemen and Bahrain - Located in Safat, Kuwait. With a brief biography of the Apostolic Nuncio, pastoral messages, and press releases.
United Nations - With a short history of the Holy See's presence at the United Nations, and a list of interventions and statements by the Permanent Observer Mission.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Abroad It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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) Abroad
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Abroad "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Abroad
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Abroad It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Abroad
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Abroad Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Abroad
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Abroad "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Abroad
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Abroad An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Abroad
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Abroad Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Abroad
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Abroad "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Abroad
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Abroad Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Abroad
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Abroad A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Abroad
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "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) Abroad The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Abroad
