"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Travel Guides "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Travel Guides
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Travel Guides "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel Guides
"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) 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Travel Guides I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Travel Guides
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel Guides Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel Guides
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Travel Guides Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Travel Guides
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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel Guides "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel Guides
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel Guides 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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Travel Guides Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel Guides
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Travel Guides Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel Guides
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Travel Guides If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Guides
