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Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Travel and Tourism Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Travel and Tourism
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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
comple Travel and Tourism "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Travel and Tourism
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Travel and Tourism
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Travel and Tourism "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Travel and Tourism It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Travel and Tourism Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Travel and Tourism
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Travel and Tourism
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
