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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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? I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Travel and Tourism Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Travel and Tourism
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Travel and Tourism Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Travel and Tourism Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Travel and Tourism blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Travel and Tourism "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Travel and Tourism Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Travel and Tourism A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Travel and Tourism
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "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) Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Travel and Tourism
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel and Tourism
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Travel and Tourism "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Travel and Tourism