"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Travel and Tourism Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Travel and Tourism
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Travel and Tourism Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Travel and Tourism
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Travel and Tourism I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 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 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Travel and Tourism
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Travel and Tourism And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Travel and Tourism
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Travel and Tourism I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Travel and Tourism Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Travel and Tourism
