Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Travel and Tourism
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Travel and Tourism Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Travel and Tourism Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Travel and Tourism A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Travel and Tourism "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Travel and Tourism If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Travel and Tourism There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Brendan Hills The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Travel and Tourism "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Travel and Tourism
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods 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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Travel and Tourism Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Travel and Tourism
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Travel and Tourism The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
