Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Travel and Tourism "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Travel and Tourism "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. What's new? Most of my wife. Travel and Tourism
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Travel and Tourism
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Travel and Tourism The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Travel and Tourism
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Travel and Tourism
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Travel and Tourism Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Travel and Tourism
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Travel and Tourism The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Travel and Tourism
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 Unha An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Travel and Tourism Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Travel and Tourism
