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 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 Travel and Tourism Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Travel and Tourism Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Travel and Tourism "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Travel and Tourism The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Travel and Tourism
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Travel and Tourism Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Travel and Tourism Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Travel and Tourism
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. My other wife is beautiful. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Travel and Tourism It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism
