You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
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. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Travel and Tourism
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Travel and Tourism
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Travel and Tourism
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud 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
machi Travel and Tourism The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Travel and Tourism "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Travel and Tourism "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi 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 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism
