"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Travel and Tourism Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Travel and Tourism Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers 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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Travel and Tourism In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Travel and Tourism
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Travel and Tourism Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Travel and Tourism
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Travel and Tourism When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Travel and Tourism
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Travel and Tourism If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Travel and Tourism
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Travel and Tourism
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Travel and Tourism Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Travel and Tourism
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
