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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Travel and Tourism We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet 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
wastes to Third Wo Travel and Tourism
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
"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) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Travel and Tourism The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Travel and Tourism The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai 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 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 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) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Travel and Tourism "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Travel and Tourism
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Travel and Tourism The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
