Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Travel and Tourism Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Travel and Tourism The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Travel and Tourism
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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 Travel and Tourism I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Travel and Tourism
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries 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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. 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. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Travel and Tourism "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Travel and Tourism
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Travel and Tourism
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Travel and Tourism "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Travel and Tourism
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Travel and Tourism You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Travel and Tourism Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Travel and Tourism
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism
