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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Travel and Tourism I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 Travel and Tourism Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Travel and Tourism
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Travel and Tourism At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Travel and Tourism
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "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) 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 Travel and Tourism My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Travel and Tourism
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Travel and Tourism
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Travel and Tourism
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Travel and Tourism
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Travel and Tourism My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Travel and Tourism
