Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Travel Guides "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel Guides
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel Guides We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel Guides
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Travel Guides The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Travel Guides
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Travel Guides A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel Guides
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Travel Guides Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Travel Guides
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous 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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel Guides
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Travel Guides Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Travel Guides Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Travel Guides
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Travel Guides We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 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 live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Travel Guides Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Travel Guides
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Travel Guides A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel Guides
