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 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Travel and Tourism
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Travel and Tourism "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Travel and Tourism Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "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) Travel and Tourism
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Travel and Tourism Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Travel and Tourism I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Travel and Tourism I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Travel and Tourism
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Travel and Tourism
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 Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Travel and Tourism 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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
