"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) >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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Travel and Tourism If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Travel and Tourism
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! 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
married 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Travel and Tourism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel and Tourism
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Travel and Tourism
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Travel and Tourism It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "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) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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