Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes 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 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Travel and Tourism "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Travel and Tourism Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Travel and Tourism The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Travel and Tourism
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Travel and Tourism When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Travel and Tourism
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Travel and Tourism If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Travel and Tourism A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Travel and Tourism Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism
