Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Travel and Tourism I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Travel and Tourism
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) 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) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Travel and Tourism
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 Travel and Tourism Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Travel and Tourism "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Travel and Tourism
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Travel and Tourism
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel and Tourism
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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
