"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Travel and Tourism Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Travel and Tourism
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Travel and Tourism To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Travel and Tourism
"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 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) What's new? Most of my wife. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Travel and Tourism
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Travel and Tourism Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Travel and Tourism
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Travel and Tourism
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Travel and Tourism
