blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Travel and Tourism
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Travel and Tourism Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Travel and Tourism
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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 Travel and Tourism Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Travel and Tourism
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Travel and Tourism Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Travel and Tourism "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Travel and Tourism Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Travel and Tourism Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Travel and Tourism
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Travel and Tourism
