Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Travel and Tourism All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
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You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Travel and Tourism "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Travel and Tourism Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Travel and Tourism
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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Travel and Tourism
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Travel and Tourism We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Travel and Tourism A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "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) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Travel and Tourism
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Travel and Tourism The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Travel and Tourism I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
