I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Travel and Tourism
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Travel and Tourism "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Tourism Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Travel and Tourism
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Travel and Tourism
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "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) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Travel and Tourism "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 President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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 Travel and Tourism I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Travel and Tourism
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Travel and Tourism In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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 Travel and Tourism "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Travel and Tourism
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Travel and Tourism Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism