"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Travel and Tourism "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Travel and Tourism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism
"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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Travel and Tourism A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Travel and Tourism No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Travel and Tourism
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
