I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Travel and Tourism If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Travel and Tourism
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel and Tourism "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Travel and Tourism
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Travel and Tourism 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.
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Travel and Tourism
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Travel and Tourism "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Travel and Tourism "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Travel and Tourism
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Travel and Tourism We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Travel and Tourism
