"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Travel and Tourism I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Travel and Tourism
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein May you never leave your marriage alive. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Travel and Tourism "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Travel and Tourism Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Travel and Tourism
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Travel and Tourism "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Travel and Tourism
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Travel and Tourism The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Travel and Tourism
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Travel and Tourism "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Travel and Tourism
"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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Travel and Tourism
