All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Travel and Tourism Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Travel and Tourism
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "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) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Travel and Tourism Man and wife make one fool. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Travel and Tourism
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Travel and Tourism "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "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) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Travel and Tourism When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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
