Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Travel Guides In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Travel Guides
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "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) Travel Guides
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "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) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Travel Guides Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Travel Guides
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Travel Guides Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel Guides
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Travel Guides Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Travel Guides He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Travel Guides
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Travel Guides Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Travel Guides
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Travel Guides The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Travel Guides
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Travel Guides "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Travel Guides
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "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) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel Guides "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel Guides
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel Guides Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James 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 Travel Guides
