A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday 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 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Travel and Tourism With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Travel and Tourism "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) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Travel and Tourism
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Travel and Tourism
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Travel and Tourism
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Travel and Tourism The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Travel and Tourism
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Travel and Tourism "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Travel and Tourism
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Travel and Tourism Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
