A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Travel and Tourism Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Travel and Tourism A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Travel and Tourism
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Travel and Tourism One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Travel and Tourism Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Travel and Tourism
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Travel and Tourism Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead 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. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Travel and Tourism
