This is Coalville - A guide to this town, listing places of interests, accommodation and restaurants.
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Travel and Tourism
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Travel and Tourism
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Travel and Tourism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "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) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Travel and Tourism It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Travel and Tourism
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 If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Travel and Tourism Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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. Travel and Tourism We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
