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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Travel and Tourism "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism
"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 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Travel and Tourism "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Travel and Tourism
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Travel and Tourism
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Travel and Tourism America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries 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 Travel and Tourism
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 and Tourism
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Travel and Tourism In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Travel and Tourism
