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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Travel and Tourism The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Travel and Tourism
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Travel and Tourism Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth 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 "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 Travel and Tourism
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Travel and Tourism
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Travel and Tourism
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Travel and Tourism The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Travel and Tourism We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Travel and Tourism
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Travel and Tourism This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Travel and Tourism
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "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
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Travel and Tourism
