"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Travel and Tourism Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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. Travel and Tourism
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Travel and Tourism If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison 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. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Travel and Tourism First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Travel and Tourism
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Travel and Tourism We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Travel and Tourism
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Travel and Tourism We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Travel and Tourism
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Drink to me.
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