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"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century 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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Travel and Tourism Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Travel and Tourism
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Travel and Tourism Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Travel and Tourism
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Travel and Tourism He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Travel and Tourism
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Travel and Tourism "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Travel and Tourism "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Travel and Tourism Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism
