With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer My other wife is beautiful. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Travel and Tourism
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Travel and Tourism It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel and Tourism Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Travel and Tourism If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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." "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Travel and Tourism I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Travel and Tourism
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Travel and Tourism
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Travel and Tourism