Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Travel and Tourism Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Travel and Tourism
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "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 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) Travel and Tourism An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Travel and Tourism
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. Travel and Tourism "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Travel and Tourism
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Travel and Tourism
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Travel and Tourism Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Travel and Tourism
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "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) Travel and Tourism
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 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 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
