Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Travel and Tourism The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Travel and Tourism
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Travel and Tourism The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Travel and Tourism
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism
"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 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Travel and Tourism
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Travel and Tourism
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Travel and Tourism
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Travel and Tourism Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Travel and Tourism
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Travel and Tourism The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Travel and Tourism
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
