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 lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Travel and Tourism Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Travel and Tourism The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Travel and Tourism
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Travel and Tourism You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Travel and Tourism All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Travel and Tourism
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Travel and Tourism
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "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) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Travel and Tourism The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Travel and Tourism Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Travel and Tourism
