Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Travel and Tourism A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Travel and Tourism
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel and Tourism The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Travel and Tourism
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Travel and Tourism blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Travel and Tourism Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "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) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Marriage is a rest period between romances. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Travel and Tourism What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel and Tourism "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
