Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Travel and Tourism
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Travel and Tourism I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Travel and Tourism
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Travel and Tourism Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Man and wife make one fool. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel and Tourism
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Travel and Tourism After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Travel and Tourism
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Travel and Tourism "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Travel and Tourism
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Travel and Tourism Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Travel and Tourism
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Travel and Tourism Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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