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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Travel and Tourism Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Travel and Tourism
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Travel and Tourism "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Travel and Tourism
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Travel and Tourism
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Travel and Tourism Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Travel and Tourism
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Travel and Tourism "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Travel and Tourism "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Travel and Tourism
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
