The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Travel and Tourism When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Travel and Tourism
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Travel and Tourism "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism "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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Travel and Tourism
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Travel and Tourism The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Travel and Tourism
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism 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 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Travel and Tourism
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel and Tourism
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Travel and Tourism Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism
