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Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Travel and Tourism In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Travel and Tourism
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Travel and Tourism There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Travel and Tourism
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Travel and Tourism
