It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Travel and Tourism "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Travel and Tourism
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Travel and Tourism I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "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) Travel and Tourism
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 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 Travel and Tourism Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Travel and Tourism "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 Travel and Tourism You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "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 Travel and Tourism
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Travel and Tourism
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Travel and Tourism When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Travel and Tourism
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Travel and Tourism Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 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
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Travel and Tourism "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
