In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism 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 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 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Travel and Tourism
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Travel and Tourism Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Travel and Tourism Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Travel and Tourism
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Travel and Tourism "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Travel and Tourism
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Travel and Tourism
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Travel and Tourism
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Travel and Tourism Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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" Travel and Tourism
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Travel and Tourism
