"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Travel and Tourism
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Travel and Tourism
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Travel and Tourism Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Travel and Tourism
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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Travel and Tourism
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Travel and Tourism "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Travel and Tourism The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Travel and Tourism When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Travel and Tourism
