If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Travel and Tourism Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel and Tourism In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Travel and Tourism
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Travel and Tourism
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Travel and Tourism
"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) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Travel and Tourism
