Doing Canterbury - A quick guide to the historic cathedral city of Canterbury, aimed at twentysomething visitors with limited time and/or budget.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Travel and Tourism "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Travel and Tourism
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Travel and Tourism
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Travel and Tourism Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Travel and Tourism "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Travel and Tourism A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Travel and Tourism I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "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) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Travel and Tourism Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Travel and Tourism
