We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Travel and Tourism
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Travel and Tourism Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost 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 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Travel and Tourism
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 Travel and Tourism Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Travel and Tourism There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Travel and Tourism
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Travel and Tourism
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Travel and Tourism Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Travel and Tourism
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Travel and Tourism Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Travel and Tourism
