To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Travel and Tourism Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel and Tourism What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Travel and Tourism Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Travel and Tourism Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Travel and Tourism "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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" Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Travel and Tourism Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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' "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Travel and Tourism Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Travel and Tourism Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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..." ( Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Travel and Tourism
