In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Travel and Tourism No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Travel and Tourism
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Travel and Tourism 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. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Travel and Tourism
"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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 "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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Travel and Tourism
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Travel and Tourism Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Travel and Tourism "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Travel and Tourism
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Travel and Tourism
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Travel and Tourism blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism
