The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Travel and Tourism I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Travel and Tourism
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Travel and Tourism "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel and Tourism
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Travel and Tourism
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Travel and Tourism It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Travel and Tourism Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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