The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Travel and Tourism "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 and Tourism
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Travel and Tourism 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Travel and Tourism His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Travel and Tourism
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "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) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Travel and Tourism
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Travel and Tourism The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Travel and Tourism "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) "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) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Travel and Tourism
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Travel and Tourism "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Travel and Tourism
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell 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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Travel and Tourism
