"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Travel and Tourism
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Travel and Tourism If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Travel and Tourism "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") 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 A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Travel and Tourism
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Travel and Tourism Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Travel and Tourism Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Travel and Tourism
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Travel and Tourism There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Travel and Tourism
