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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "'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, Through the Looking Glass) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Travel and Tourism
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a rest period between romances. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Travel and Tourism Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Travel and Tourism
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Travel and Tourism Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Travel and Tourism
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Travel and Tourism
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Travel and Tourism Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Travel and Tourism
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Travel and Tourism I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Travel and Tourism