"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Travel and Tourism Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Travel and Tourism
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Travel and Tourism
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Travel and Tourism "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Travel and Tourism
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Travel and Tourism I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Travel and Tourism
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Travel and Tourism Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism
