How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Travel and Tourism All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Travel and Tourism
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Travel and Tourism "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Travel and Tourism "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Travel and Tourism More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Travel and Tourism
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Travel and Tourism Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Travel and Tourism
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Travel and Tourism Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Travel and Tourism 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 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Travel and Tourism
"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) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "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) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Travel and Tourism "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Travel and Tourism I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Travel and Tourism
