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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Travel and Tourism
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Travel and Tourism "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Travel and Tourism Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana 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 Travel and Tourism
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 Travel and Tourism It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
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' "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Travel and Tourism
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 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Travel and Tourism "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel and Tourism When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Travel and Tourism "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
