By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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) Travel and Tourism Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Travel and Tourism
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Travel and Tourism Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Travel and Tourism To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Travel and Tourism "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Travel and Tourism
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Travel and Tourism A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Travel and Tourism
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Travel and Tourism The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Travel and Tourism
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism
