In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Travel and Tourism
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Kelvin Throop I Travel and Tourism 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Travel and Tourism Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel and Tourism I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Travel and Tourism
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Travel and Tourism Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism
