It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Travel and Tourism Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Travel and Tourism The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Travel and Tourism
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Travel and Tourism I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Travel and Tourism There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Travel and Tourism Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Travel and Tourism To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Travel and Tourism Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Travel and Tourism
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism
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 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism