"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Travel and Tourism I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 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 Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Travel and Tourism All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Travel and Tourism "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Travel and Tourism Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Travel and Tourism
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Travel and Tourism
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Travel and Tourism
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Travel and Tourism "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Travel and Tourism
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Travel and Tourism I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 Travel and Tourism
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel and Tourism Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher 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 One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Travel and Tourism
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Travel and Tourism Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
