Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Travel and Tourism If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Travel and Tourism Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Travel and Tourism
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Travel and Tourism There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Travel and Tourism
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Travel and Tourism "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Travel and Tourism The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "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 Travel and Tourism
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Travel and Tourism We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Travel and Tourism
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Travel and Tourism Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Travel and Tourism
