"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Travel and Tourism Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Travel and Tourism
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Travel and Tourism I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Travel and Tourism "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Travel and Tourism
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Travel and Tourism The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Travel and Tourism
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
