"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Travel and Tourism
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Travel and Tourism "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Travel and Tourism "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Travel and Tourism If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Travel and Tourism
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Travel and Tourism A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Travel and Tourism "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Travel and Tourism
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Travel and Tourism A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Travel and Tourism
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Travel and Tourism To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Travel and Tourism You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism
