Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and 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 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 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Travel and Tourism
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 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 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Travel and Tourism Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari 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 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Travel and Tourism
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Travel and Tourism Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Travel and Tourism
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Travel and Tourism Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Travel and Tourism
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Travel and Tourism "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Travel and Tourism
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Tourism
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Travel and Tourism English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours 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
