"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Travel and Tourism To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Travel and Tourism
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Travel and Tourism
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Travel and Tourism Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 Travel and Tourism
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "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 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism 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 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Travel and Tourism
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Travel and Tourism "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Travel and Tourism Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Travel and Tourism My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X 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. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Travel and Tourism Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Travel and Tourism
