The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Travel and Tourism The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism 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 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Travel and Tourism I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Travel and Tourism
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Travel and Tourism
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Travel and Tourism I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Travel and Tourism
