We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Tour Operators For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Tour Operators
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Tour Operators "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "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) Tour Operators
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Tour Operators The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Tour Operators
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Tour Operators "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Tour Operators
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Tour Operators I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "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) Tour Operators
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Tour Operators You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Tour Operators
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Tour Operators This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tour Operators
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Tour Operators If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Tour Operators
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Tour Operators I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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 Tour Operators
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Tour Operators To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Tour Operators
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Tour Operators Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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