Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Travel and Tourism
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Travel and Tourism
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Travel and Tourism "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 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 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) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Travel and Tourism The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel and Tourism An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Travel and Tourism
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Travel and Tourism A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Travel and Tourism Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Travel and Tourism
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tourism
