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Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Travel and Tourism
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
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be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "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 "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) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Travel and Tourism It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism 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 Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Travel and Tourism
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Travel and Tourism
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Travel and Tourism
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Travel and Tourism
