If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Travel and Tourism "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "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 cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Travel and Tourism Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Travel and Tourism
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 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Travel and Tourism May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Travel and Tourism
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Travel and Tourism
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Travel and Tourism
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Travel and Tourism
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Travel and Tourism
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Travel and Tourism Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Travel and Tourism
