A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Travel and Tourism God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Travel and Tourism If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Travel and Tourism The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "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) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Travel and Tourism No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Travel and Tourism Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Travel and Tourism
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Travel and Tourism Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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 Travel and Tourism Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Travel and Tourism
