Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Travel and Tourism
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 "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) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) "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) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Travel and Tourism
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude 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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Travel and Tourism
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Travel and Tourism "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel and Tourism
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses 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 Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "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) 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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Travel and Tourism How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
