Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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." Travel and Tourism
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Travel and Tourism Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Travel and Tourism
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Travel and Tourism
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Travel and Tourism
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Travel and Tourism The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Travel and Tourism
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Travel and Tourism "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Travel and Tourism "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Travel and Tourism 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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
