What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Travel and Tourism
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Travel and Tourism
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Travel and Tourism The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Travel and Tourism
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism
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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Travel and Tourism No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Travel and Tourism
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Travel and Tourism Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
