I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Travel and Tourism
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Travel and Tourism Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel and Tourism
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Travel and Tourism If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Travel and Tourism
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Travel and Tourism "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Travel and Tourism
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Travel and Tourism God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Travel and Tourism
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Travel and Tourism Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Travel and Tourism
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) >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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Travel and Tourism The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism
