Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
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-- Cynthia Heimel "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Travel and Tourism
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Travel and Tourism The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Travel and Tourism Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Travel and Tourism
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Travel and Tourism "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Travel and Tourism Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Travel and Tourism
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Travel and Tourism "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Travel and Tourism If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Travel and Tourism Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Travel and Tourism
