I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Travel and Tourism "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Travel and Tourism
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Travel and Tourism He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
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-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Travel and Tourism
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel and Tourism By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Travel and Tourism
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Travel and Tourism
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Travel and Tourism Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Travel and Tourism A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "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
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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