The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Travel and Tourism Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
"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) 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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Travel and Tourism "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Travel and Tourism You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Travel and Tourism
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Travel and Tourism
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Travel and Tourism MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Travel and Tourism
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Travel and Tourism
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Travel and Tourism "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." "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism
