It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Travel and Tourism If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Travel and Tourism "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Travel and Tourism
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) 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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Travel and Tourism
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Travel and Tourism We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Travel and Tourism "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Travel and Tourism
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Travel and Tourism Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Travel and Tourism My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Travel and Tourism 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
