Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Travel and Tourism Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Travel and Tourism The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Travel and Tourism
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Travel and Tourism To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Travel and Tourism
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Travel and Tourism That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel and Tourism
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism 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.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism 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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Travel and Tourism There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel and Tourism Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Travel and Tourism
