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"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "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-) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel Guides There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd 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 Travel Guides
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel Guides "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Travel Guides
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Travel Guides Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Travel Guides
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. 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel Guides The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Travel Guides
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Travel Guides Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Travel Guides
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Travel Guides Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel Guides
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Travel Guides Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Travel Guides
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Travel Guides Man and wife make one fool. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Travel Guides
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel Guides Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Travel Guides
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Travel Guides I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel Guides What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides
