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Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Travel and Tourism "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) 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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "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) Travel and Tourism
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Travel and Tourism
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Travel and Tourism 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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Travel and Tourism
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Travel and Tourism These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Travel and Tourism
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Travel and Tourism "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Travel and Tourism If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
