If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Travel and Tourism "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Travel and Tourism The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Travel and Tourism
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Travel and Tourism Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Travel and Tourism Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Travel and Tourism Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism
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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Travel and Tourism Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Travel and Tourism
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Travel and Tourism May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Travel and Tourism
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Travel and Tourism The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman 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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. 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 Travel and Tourism
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Travel and Tourism Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism
