I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Travel and Tourism "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Travel and Tourism
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton 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 second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Travel and Tourism If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Travel and Tourism
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Travel and Tourism We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Travel and Tourism We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Travel and Tourism
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Travel and Tourism
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner 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 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken 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) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Travel and Tourism
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Travel and Tourism There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Travel and Tourism
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 Travel and Tourism The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Travel and Tourism
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism 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 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism
