If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Travel and Tourism
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Travel and Tourism "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) 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Travel and Tourism
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Travel and Tourism Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Travel and Tourism
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Travel and Tourism Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Travel and Tourism
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Travel and Tourism "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Travel and Tourism
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
