The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Travel and Tourism Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Travel and Tourism
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Travel and Tourism
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "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" Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Travel and Tourism
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Travel and Tourism
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Travel and Tourism "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Travel and Tourism
