What's new? Most of my wife. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Travel and Tourism "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Travel and Tourism
My other wife is beautiful. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Travel and Tourism
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Travel and Tourism My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Travel and Tourism
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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Travel and Tourism
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Travel and Tourism Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Travel and Tourism
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Travel and Tourism A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Travel and Tourism
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Travel and Tourism Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen 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 Travel and Tourism
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
