You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Travel and Tourism Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Travel and Tourism
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Travel and Tourism "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Travel and Tourism
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Travel and Tourism Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Travel and Tourism
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Travel and Tourism
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 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 Travel and Tourism
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Travel and Tourism
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 Travel and Tourism Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Travel and Tourism
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Travel and Tourism Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
