I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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.
-- Crow Travel and Tourism Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Travel and Tourism The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Travel and Tourism
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Travel and Tourism You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Travel and Tourism
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Travel and Tourism The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Travel and Tourism
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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) Travel and Tourism Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Travel and Tourism
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Travel and Tourism To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Travel and Tourism
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism
