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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Travel and Tourism I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker 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
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Travel and Tourism
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Travel and Tourism The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Travel and Tourism Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Travel and Tourism
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "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
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism 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
convi Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Travel and Tourism
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Travel and Tourism
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) 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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
