Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "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) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-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 put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth 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 Travel and Tourism Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Travel and Tourism
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 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Travel and Tourism "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Travel and Tourism
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Travel and Tourism "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) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Travel and Tourism
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Travel and Tourism Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Travel and Tourism
