When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Travel and Tourism
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism 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 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Travel and Tourism
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "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) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Travel and Tourism
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Travel and Tourism
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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? The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Travel and Tourism Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Travel and Tourism
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "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 Travel and Tourism When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel and Tourism
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Travel and Tourism
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
