It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Travel and Tourism Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Travel and Tourism Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "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) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Travel and Tourism
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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Travel and Tourism "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Travel and Tourism
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Travel and Tourism Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Travel and Tourism
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Travel and Tourism
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Think off-center." (George Carlin) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Travel and Tourism At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Travel and Tourism If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Travel and Tourism
