"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Travel and Tourism Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Travel and Tourism
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism "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) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Travel and Tourism
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje 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 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Travel and Tourism "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Travel and Tourism
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Travel and Tourism
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Travel and Tourism "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Travel and Tourism
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Travel and Tourism
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Travel and Tourism Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Travel and Tourism
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Travel and Tourism Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Travel and Tourism
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Travel and Tourism
