We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "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) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Travel and Tourism "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Travel and Tourism
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Travel and Tourism I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Travel and Tourism
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Travel and Tourism
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Travel and Tourism To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Travel and Tourism
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Travel and Tourism "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Travel and Tourism I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Travel and Tourism
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Travel and Tourism "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel and Tourism Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Travel and Tourism "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
