Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Travel and Tourism Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Travel and Tourism Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Travel and Tourism
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "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) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Travel and Tourism I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Travel and Tourism "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "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) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Travel and Tourism "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Travel and Tourism
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Travel and Tourism
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Travel and Tourism blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Travel and Tourism "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
