For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Travel and Tourism
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Travel and Tourism
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "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) Travel and Tourism
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Travel and Tourism Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Travel and Tourism
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Travel and Tourism Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Travel and Tourism
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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" Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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 Travel and Tourism
