"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Travel and Tourism
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Travel and Tourism
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Travel and Tourism Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Travel and Tourism
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Travel and Tourism "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Travel and Tourism
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Travel and Tourism Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Travel and Tourism
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Travel and Tourism A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Travel and Tourism
