Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Travel and Tourism In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele 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) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Travel and Tourism
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through 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 Travel and Tourism Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry 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 Travel and Tourism "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Travel and Tourism
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Travel and Tourism "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Travel and Tourism
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Travel and Tourism
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes 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 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Travel and Tourism
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Travel and Tourism
