UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Travel and Tourism
"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 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Travel and Tourism Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "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) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Travel and Tourism "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Travel and Tourism
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Travel and Tourism I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Travel and Tourism "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Travel and Tourism "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Travel and Tourism The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Travel and Tourism
