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"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism 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 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 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Travel and Tourism
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Travel and Tourism The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Travel and Tourism Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Travel and Tourism You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Travel and Tourism
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Travel and Tourism blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Travel and Tourism If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Travel and Tourism
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Travel and Tourism Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
