I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Travel and Tourism When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Travel and Tourism If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Travel and Tourism I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Travel and Tourism
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Travel and Tourism
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Travel and Tourism
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Travel and Tourism The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Travel and Tourism
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Travel and Tourism
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Travel and Tourism
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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