How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Travel and Tourism When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Travel and Tourism
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Travel and Tourism
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") 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 Travel and Tourism
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Travel and Tourism
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Travel and Tourism I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel and Tourism
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Travel and Tourism
