A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Travel Guides The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel Guides
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Travel Guides If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Travel Guides
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Travel Guides "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel Guides
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Travel Guides I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Travel Guides
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Travel Guides It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Travel Guides
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "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 "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Travel Guides The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Travel Guides
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work 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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Travel Guides "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel Guides
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Travel Guides My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
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 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel Guides Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Travel Guides 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Travel Guides
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel Guides The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Travel Guides
