I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Travel and Tourism Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "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) Travel and Tourism Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Travel and Tourism Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Travel and Tourism Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita 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 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Travel and Tourism
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Travel and Tourism "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Travel and Tourism
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Travel and Tourism
