Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Travel and Tourism The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Travel and Tourism
"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.) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Travel and Tourism
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Travel and Tourism "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Travel and Tourism
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Travel and Tourism
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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those tiny toil Travel and Tourism We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "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) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Travel and Tourism "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Travel and Tourism
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Travel and Tourism Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Travel and Tourism Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Travel and Tourism "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Travel and Tourism
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Travel and Tourism Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Travel and Tourism Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Travel and Tourism
