In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel Guides "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Travel Guides
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Travel Guides Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Travel Guides
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Travel Guides They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Travel Guides
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Travel Guides "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Travel Guides
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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Travel Guides Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Travel Guides
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel Guides Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel Guides
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Travel Guides "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Travel Guides
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel Guides
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel Guides Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel Guides
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George 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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Travel Guides If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Travel Guides
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Travel Guides Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides
