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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz What's new? Most of my wife. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Travel and Tourism
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Travel and Tourism
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Travel and Tourism In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Travel and Tourism
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Travel and Tourism This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Travel and Tourism
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Travel and Tourism
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "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) Travel and Tourism He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Travel and Tourism
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
