After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 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 Travel and Tourism 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 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Travel and Tourism
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill 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. Travel and Tourism "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Travel and Tourism
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Travel and Tourism "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Travel and Tourism Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Travel and Tourism
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Travel and Tourism "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism
