The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Resorts He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Resorts
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "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, Alice in Wonderland That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Resorts Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Resorts
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Resorts I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Resorts
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Resorts Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Resorts
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 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Resorts "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Resorts
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Resorts Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Resorts
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Resorts All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Resorts
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Resorts Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Resorts
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Resorts The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Resorts
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Resorts "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Resorts
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 Resorts You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Resorts
