"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "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) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism May you never leave your marriage alive. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Travel and Tourism
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Travel and Tourism Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Travel and Tourism
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Travel and Tourism
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel and Tourism
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert 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 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
