"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Travel and Tourism "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Travel and Tourism May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Travel and Tourism
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Travel and Tourism They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Travel and Tourism
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Travel and Tourism "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Travel and Tourism "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Travel and Tourism The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Travel and Tourism
