"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) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Travel and Tourism
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Travel and Tourism
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Travel and Tourism "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
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 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Travel and Tourism One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Travel and Tourism
"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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Travel and Tourism
"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) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Travel and Tourism The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Travel and Tourism
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
