He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Travel and Tourism Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Travel and Tourism "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Travel and Tourism "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Travel and Tourism They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Travel and Tourism What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Travel and Tourism We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Travel and Tourism
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Travel and Tourism People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism
