"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) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Travel and Tourism
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Travel and Tourism
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Travel and Tourism
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Travel and Tourism A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Travel and Tourism
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Travel and Tourism Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Travel and Tourism Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Travel and Tourism
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Travel and Tourism I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
