I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem 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 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Travel and Tourism Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Travel and Tourism
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Travel and Tourism
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Travel and Tourism
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do 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 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Travel and Tourism
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 Travel and Tourism "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Travel and Tourism
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Travel and Tourism
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Travel and Tourism Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Travel and Tourism
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Travel and Tourism Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
