It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx Travel Agents For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
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-- Lyster Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
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-- P. J This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire Travel Agents When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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-- Francois Cavanna Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel Agents
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-- Sydney Smith There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Travel Agents "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) "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 "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 Travel Agents
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anonymous 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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-- PARKINSON'S LAW All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Travel Agents Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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-- Grace Hansen I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Travel Agents "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words Travel Agents
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Travel Agents An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
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-- Anon. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel Agents
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Travel Agents Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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- George Eliot Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel Agents Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Travel Agents
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-- Cormac McCarthy If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel Agents Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
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-- Anon. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Travel Agents
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Travel Agents I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Travel Agents
