"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Travel and Tourism Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Travel and Tourism If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Travel and Tourism How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Travel and Tourism Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Travel and Tourism
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Travel and Tourism If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Travel and Tourism
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Travel and Tourism Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Travel and Tourism
"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' A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Travel and Tourism If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Travel and Tourism The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Travel and Tourism "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
