Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Travel and Tourism
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "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) Travel and Tourism
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Travel and Tourism "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Travel and Tourism
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Travel and Tourism "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Travel and Tourism When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel and Tourism
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Travel and Tourism If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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