"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Travel Services "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Travel Services
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel Services 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Travel Services
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Travel Services Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Travel Services
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Travel Services Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel Services
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov 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 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel Services Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel Services
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Travel Services It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Travel Services
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel Services Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel Services
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Travel Services "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel Services
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Travel Services The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Travel Services
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Travel Services The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel Services
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Travel Services Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Travel Services
