"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism "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 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 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 Travel and Tourism
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Man and wife make one fool. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "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) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Travel and Tourism
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Travel and Tourism "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Travel and Tourism
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Travel and Tourism
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan 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 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Travel and Tourism Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Travel and Tourism
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Travel and Tourism 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Travel and Tourism When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Travel and Tourism
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Travel and Tourism
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Travel and Tourism Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Travel and Tourism
