Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel and Tourism "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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-- Modern Maturity "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire 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 Travel and Tourism "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Travel and Tourism
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Travel and Tourism Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Travel and Tourism
What's new? Most of my wife. "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) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Travel and Tourism In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Travel and Tourism
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Travel and Tourism
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Travel and Tourism You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Travel and Tourism Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Travel and Tourism
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Travel and Tourism When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Travel and Tourism He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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 Travel and Tourism
