Marriage is a rest period between romances. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Travel Guides Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) 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 Guides
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 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Travel Guides "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Travel Guides
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel Guides Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Travel Guides
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel Guides By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Travel Guides
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Travel Guides All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel Guides
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel Guides Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel Guides
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Travel Guides Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Travel Guides
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Travel Guides Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel Guides I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel Guides
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Travel Guides For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel Guides
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel Guides There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel Guides
