Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Travel and Tourism
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Travel and Tourism
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Travel and Tourism "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"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) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "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) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Travel and Tourism The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 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
a fortune Travel and Tourism "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Travel and Tourism A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Travel and Tourism
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "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) Travel and Tourism If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Travel and Tourism I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
