then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel Guides When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Travel Guides
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Travel Guides "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "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) Travel Guides
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "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 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides "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) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel Guides
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel Guides
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Travel Guides Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel Guides blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel Guides I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Travel Guides
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Travel Guides Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a rest period between romances. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel Guides I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Travel Guides
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Travel Guides
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 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Travel Guides The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel Guides
