There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Travel and Tourism
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism 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 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Travel and Tourism If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Travel and Tourism Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Travel and Tourism The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Travel and Tourism "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Travel and Tourism
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "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) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Travel and Tourism The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Travel and Tourism
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Travel and Tourism 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism
