"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Travel and Tourism The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Travel and Tourism "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 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Travel and Tourism
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel and Tourism
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Travel and Tourism The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Travel and Tourism
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Travel and Tourism Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Travel and Tourism
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Travel and Tourism That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Travel and Tourism The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel and Tourism
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
