The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "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) Travel and Tourism
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Travel and Tourism
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Travel and Tourism Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Travel and Tourism
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Travel and Tourism
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Travel and Tourism Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Travel and Tourism Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Travel and Tourism A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Travel and Tourism
