Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Travel and Tourism The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Travel and Tourism
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Travel and Tourism When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Travel and Tourism
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Travel and Tourism "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Travel and Tourism
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Travel and Tourism You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Travel and Tourism "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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Travel and Tourism A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Travel and Tourism The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller 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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Travel and Tourism
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Travel and Tourism Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
