"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "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 I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Travel and Tourism "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Travel and Tourism
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Travel and Tourism In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Travel and Tourism
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Travel and Tourism Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Travel and Tourism
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Travel and Tourism 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "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) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Travel and Tourism
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Travel and Tourism All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Travel and Tourism "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Travel and Tourism
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Travel and Tourism Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "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 Travel and Tourism
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "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 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
