"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Travel and Tourism
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Travel and Tourism "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Travel and Tourism
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Travel and Tourism "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Travel and Tourism In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism 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 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel and Tourism Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
