CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Travel and Tourism Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel and Tourism
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "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
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Travel and Tourism There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Travel and Tourism
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Travel and Tourism
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Travel and Tourism "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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.
-- Anonymous "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Travel and Tourism Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Travel and Tourism
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
