When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Travel and Tourism
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Travel and Tourism Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "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
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Travel and Tourism Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Travel and Tourism
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism 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. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Travel and Tourism "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Travel and Tourism
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Travel and Tourism "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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Travel and Tourism
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Travel and Tourism He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Travel and Tourism
