If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel Agents Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel Agents
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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Travel Agents "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel Agents
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Travel Agents "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel Agents
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Travel Agents There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel Agents
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Travel Agents Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel Agents
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel Agents Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Travel Agents
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Travel Agents "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Travel Agents
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Agents My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Travel Agents
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Travel Agents I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Travel Agents
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel Agents God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel Agents
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Travel Agents It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel Agents
