"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Travel and Tourism
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Travel and Tourism Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Travel and Tourism
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 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 My other wife is beautiful. Travel and Tourism To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood 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 Travel and Tourism Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Travel and Tourism In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Travel and Tourism
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Travel and Tourism Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Travel and Tourism
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) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
