"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Travel and Tourism Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel and Tourism
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis 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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Travel and Tourism
"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) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Travel and Tourism It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Travel and Tourism Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism
