My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Travel and Tourism After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Travel and Tourism Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Travel and Tourism
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Travel and Tourism "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Travel and Tourism
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Travel and Tourism
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Travel and Tourism "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) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Travel and Tourism
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Travel and Tourism
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Travel and Tourism "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) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Travel and Tourism
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Travel and Tourism We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Travel and Tourism Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism
