Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Travel Guides There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Travel Guides
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Travel Guides Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel Guides
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel Guides Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel Guides
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Travel Guides A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel Guides
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Travel Guides "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel Guides
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Travel Guides "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel Guides
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Travel Guides Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Travel Guides
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Travel Guides Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Travel Guides
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Travel Guides "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Travel Guides The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel Guides
