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Marriage is a rest period between romances. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux 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 difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Travel and Tourism "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Travel and Tourism Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Travel and Tourism Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Travel and Tourism
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Travel and Tourism If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford 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
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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. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Travel and Tourism
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Travel and Tourism "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
