If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Travel and Tourism To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Travel and Tourism
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Travel and Tourism Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Travel and Tourism
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Travel and Tourism "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Travel and Tourism
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Travel and Tourism We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Travel and Tourism
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Travel and Tourism "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Travel and Tourism
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Travel and Tourism There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
