"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel and Tourism
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Travel and Tourism How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Travel and Tourism
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston 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 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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,
ign Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Travel and Tourism I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "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) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Travel and Tourism
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus 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 Travel and Tourism
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Travel and Tourism May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Travel and Tourism
