"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Travel Guides "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Travel Guides
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Travel Guides No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Travel Guides
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel Guides The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Travel Guides
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Travel Guides How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Travel Guides
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Travel Guides Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel Guides
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel Guides Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Travel Guides
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Travel Guides I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel Guides
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Travel Guides "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel Guides
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Travel Guides In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Travel Guides
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Travel Guides The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel Guides
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Travel Guides The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Travel Guides
