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 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Travel and Tourism There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Travel and Tourism We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Travel and Tourism
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "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) Travel and Tourism Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 Travel and Tourism
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel and Tourism
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Travel and Tourism
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Travel and Tourism
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Travel and Tourism
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism 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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
