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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 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism
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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Travel and Tourism The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Travel and Tourism A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Travel and Tourism Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Travel and Tourism
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Travel and Tourism
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Travel and Tourism A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Travel and Tourism Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru 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
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
