The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Travel and Tourism I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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apparently based Travel and Tourism In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Travel and Tourism Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Travel and Tourism
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Travel and Tourism
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Travel and Tourism The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "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) Travel and Tourism
