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There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "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) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Travel and Tourism Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Travel and Tourism
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Travel and Tourism
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Travel and Tourism 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
reall Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Travel and Tourism A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Travel and Tourism
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Travel and Tourism We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Travel and Tourism The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Travel and Tourism If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Travel and Tourism In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 What's new? Most of my wife. Travel and Tourism
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Travel and Tourism
