"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Travel and Tourism Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 Travel and Tourism America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Travel and Tourism Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Travel and Tourism There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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"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) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Travel and Tourism
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Travel and Tourism
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Travel and Tourism
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Travel and Tourism
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Travel and Tourism "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Travel and Tourism The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Travel and Tourism
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 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "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) Travel and Tourism
