Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Travel and Tourism If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Travel and Tourism A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Travel and Tourism
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Travel and Tourism It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Travel and Tourism
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Travel and Tourism See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Travel and Tourism
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers May you never leave your marriage alive. Travel and Tourism
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Travel and Tourism
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Travel and Tourism Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Travel and Tourism
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Travel and Tourism The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Travel and Tourism
