Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Travel and Tourism The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "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) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Travel and Tourism
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Travel and Tourism
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Travel and Tourism The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
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 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Travel and Tourism We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 Nietzsche May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Travel and Tourism Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Travel and Tourism
