Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Travel and Tourism Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Travel and Tourism
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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 Travel and Tourism I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Travel and Tourism
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Travel and Tourism Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones 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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Travel and Tourism To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
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 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Travel and Tourism What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Travel and Tourism He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Travel and Tourism
