I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Travel and Tourism
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Travel and Tourism
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Travel and Tourism
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "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 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Travel and Tourism Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Travel and Tourism "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Travel and Tourism
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Travel and Tourism Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Travel and Tourism
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Travel and Tourism
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Travel and Tourism One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Travel and Tourism
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel and Tourism
