"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Travel and Tourism When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Travel and Tourism
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Travel and Tourism To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Travel and Tourism 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "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 What's new? Most of my wife. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Travel and Tourism
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Travel and Tourism How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Travel and Tourism When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Travel and Tourism
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Travel and Tourism
