Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra 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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Travel and Tourism If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Travel and Tourism I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Travel and Tourism "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Travel and Tourism
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Travel and Tourism Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Travel and Tourism
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Travel and Tourism A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Travel and Tourism
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Travel and Tourism No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
