The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Travel and Tourism Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Travel and Tourism You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Travel and Tourism You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Travel and Tourism
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Travel and Tourism "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi 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 Travel and Tourism The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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 you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel and Tourism Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Travel and Tourism You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 Travel and Tourism
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Travel and Tourism
