"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Travel and Tourism There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Travel and Tourism
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism "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) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner 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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Travel and Tourism No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Travel and Tourism I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism 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 real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Travel and Tourism A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Travel and Tourism Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "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) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
