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Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Travel and Tourism Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism "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 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 Travel and Tourism That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Travel and Tourism
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Travel and Tourism
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a 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 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Travel and Tourism
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Travel and Tourism There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
