blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Travel and Tourism "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Travel and Tourism
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Travel and Tourism Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) My other wife is beautiful. Travel and Tourism
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Travel and Tourism
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Travel and Tourism Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Travel and Tourism
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Travel and Tourism Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Travel and Tourism The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin 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 Travel and Tourism
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Travel and Tourism "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
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.
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Travel and Tourism The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Travel and Tourism
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Travel and Tourism All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Travel and Tourism
