"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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Travel and Tourism Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism
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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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
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This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Travel and Tourism
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "... 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) Travel and Tourism "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Travel and Tourism
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Travel and Tourism We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Travel and Tourism
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Travel and Tourism
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "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) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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 liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
