Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Travel and Tourism Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Travel and Tourism "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Travel and Tourism "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Travel and Tourism Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "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) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Travel and Tourism
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Travel and Tourism
