Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Camping and Caravans If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Camping and Caravans
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Camping and Caravans Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Camping and Caravans
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Camping and Caravans Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Camping and Caravans
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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) Camping and Caravans Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Camping and Caravans
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Camping and Caravans My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Camping and Caravans
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Camping and Caravans The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Camping and Caravans
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Camping and Caravans Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Camping and Caravans
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Camping and Caravans It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Camping and Caravans
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Camping and Caravans If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Camping and Caravans
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Camping and Caravans This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Camping and Caravans
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Camping and Caravans Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Camping and Caravans
