Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Travel and Tourism
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Travel and Tourism And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther 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 Travel and Tourism "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Travel and Tourism
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Travel and Tourism
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Travel and Tourism
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Travel and Tourism
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Travel and Tourism There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Travel and Tourism
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Travel and Tourism If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Travel and Tourism
