There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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disg Travel and Tourism Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Travel and Tourism
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Travel and Tourism "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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
a fortune It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "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) "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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Travel and Tourism My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Travel and Tourism When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Travel and Tourism
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Travel and Tourism If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Travel and Tourism The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Travel and Tourism
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Travel and Tourism We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism
