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May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Travel and Tourism The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) 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 Travel and Tourism
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 Travel and Tourism
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Travel and Tourism The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Travel and Tourism To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Travel and Tourism There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Travel and Tourism Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Travel and Tourism Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a rest period between romances. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Travel and Tourism Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Travel and Tourism
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "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) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
