"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Travel and Tourism
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel and Tourism "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Travel and Tourism
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Travel and Tourism "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Travel and Tourism
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Travel and Tourism A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Travel and Tourism
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Travel and Tourism "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Travel and Tourism
