Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Travel and Tourism Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism
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) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Travel and Tourism
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "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) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Travel and Tourism What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Travel and Tourism Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes 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
