Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Travel and Tourism Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 Travel and Tourism Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Travel and Tourism
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Travel and Tourism Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Travel and Tourism
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Travel and Tourism Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe 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 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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." Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Travel and Tourism
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Travel and Tourism Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Travel and Tourism
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
