If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Travel and Tourism At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Travel and Tourism "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Travel and Tourism
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Travel and Tourism The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Travel and Tourism Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism "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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Travel and Tourism Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "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 Travel and Tourism
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism May you never leave your marriage alive. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Travel and Tourism
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Travel and Tourism "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism
