"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Travel and Tourism "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Travel and Tourism
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Travel and Tourism
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Travel and Tourism Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Travel and Tourism
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Travel and Tourism Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Travel and Tourism
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Travel and Tourism In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Travel and Tourism An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Travel and Tourism I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Travel and Tourism
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Travel and Tourism
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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