Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Travel and Tourism All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Travel and Tourism
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Travel and Tourism Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Travel and Tourism
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Travel and Tourism 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 voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Travel and Tourism
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Travel and Tourism
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Travel and Tourism "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Travel and Tourism In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "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) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Travel and Tourism
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Travel and Tourism Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism
