"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Travel and Tourism
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Travel and Tourism "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) 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Travel and Tourism
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel and Tourism We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Travel and Tourism The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Travel and Tourism
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Travel and Tourism Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Travel and Tourism
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Travel and Tourism Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Travel and Tourism It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Travel and Tourism
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Travel and Tourism
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
