Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford 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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Travel and Tourism Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Travel and Tourism
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel and Tourism Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Travel and Tourism
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism 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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Travel and Tourism Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Travel and Tourism I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Travel and Tourism
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Travel and Tourism Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Travel and Tourism
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "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 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Travel and Tourism Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Travel and Tourism "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Travel and Tourism
