Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Travel and Tourism
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Travel and Tourism The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Travel and Tourism I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Travel and Tourism This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Travel and Tourism
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Travel and Tourism Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Travel and Tourism Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Travel and Tourism
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Travel and Tourism Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism
