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'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Travel and Tourism
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais >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 most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Travel and Tourism "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Travel and Tourism
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel and Tourism I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Travel and Tourism
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Travel and Tourism "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Travel and Tourism
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Travel and Tourism Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Travel and Tourism
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
