"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Travel and Tourism "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Travel and Tourism I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Travel and Tourism
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Travel and Tourism Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Travel and Tourism
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Travel and Tourism
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Travel and Tourism
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Travel and Tourism
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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 "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) 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Travel and Tourism The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel and Tourism
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Travel and Tourism
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Travel and Tourism "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
