"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Travel and Tourism
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Travel and Tourism Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Travel and Tourism
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings 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 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Travel and Tourism "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Travel and Tourism
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Travel and Tourism
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Travel and Tourism A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Travel and Tourism
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Travel and Tourism
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Travel and Tourism "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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