"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
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 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Tourism All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Travel and Tourism
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Travel and Tourism
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Travel and Tourism I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Travel and Tourism
"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) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Travel and Tourism Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Travel and Tourism We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Travel and Tourism
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Travel and Tourism I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism
