History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Travel and Tourism Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "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) 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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous 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 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Travel and Tourism Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Travel and Tourism
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Travel and Tourism When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Travel and Tourism Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism
