"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Travel and Tourism Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Travel and Tourism
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel and Tourism If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
What's new? Most of my wife. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Travel and Tourism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Travel and Tourism
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Travel and Tourism We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Travel and Tourism
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Travel and Tourism "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Travel and Tourism Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Travel and Tourism
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- 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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Travel and Tourism A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Travel and Tourism Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Travel and Tourism
