I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Travel and Tourism "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "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) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "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 Travel and Tourism
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Travel and Tourism It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Travel and Tourism
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Travel and Tourism "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Travel and Tourism
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Travel and Tourism A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Travel and Tourism
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Travel and Tourism
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Travel and Tourism
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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Travel and Tourism I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
