Arafath Travels Quotes & Sayings

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said. — Jack Redmond

Choices in life are not and should not be determined by our life circumstances. — Karni Liddell

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised. — Jane Lindskold

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room. — Albert Einstein

I rolled my eyes. "I'm sure I'll hold out until Halloween."
"That's already passed."
"Exactly," I muttered — Jennifer L. Armentrout

At a hundred and twenty five miles per hour, with the wind rushing in his face, darkness around him, he is alone in the universe, but then, Zeb has been alone all his life. — Ty Patterson

No one could recall who he was or what he had looked like, least of all Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren, who remembered only that a new officer had shown up at the operations tent just in time to be killed and who colored uneasily every time the matter of the dead man in Yossarian's tent was mentioned. The only one who might have seen Mudd, the men in the same plane, had all been blown to bits with him. Yossarian, on the other hand, knew exactly who Mudd was. Mudd was the unknown soldier who had never had a chance, for that was the only thing anyone ever did know about all the unknown soldiers - they never had a chance. They had to be dead. — Joseph Heller

No ghosts need apply.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire — Arthur Conan Doyle