As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel and Tourism Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Travel and Tourism
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Travel and Tourism Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Travel and Tourism
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Travel and Tourism Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Travel and Tourism
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Travel and Tourism Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Man and wife make one fool. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) 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. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Travel and Tourism For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Travel and Tourism
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Travel and Tourism Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Travel and Tourism
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Travel and Tourism In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Travel and Tourism
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism