Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Travel and Tourism There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Travel and Tourism
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Travel and Tourism The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Travel and Tourism
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Travel and Tourism The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 Travel and Tourism America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Travel and Tourism
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) Travel and Tourism "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Travel and Tourism blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Travel and Tourism
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Travel and Tourism He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism
