If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Travel and Tourism
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Travel and Tourism Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Travel and Tourism
"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) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Travel and Tourism I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Travel and Tourism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism "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) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Travel and Tourism
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Travel and Tourism Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Travel and Tourism "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Man and wife make one fool. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Travel and Tourism
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
