"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Travel and Tourism
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Travel and Tourism The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Travel and Tourism
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Travel and Tourism If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Travel and Tourism
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Travel and Tourism I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Travel and Tourism
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Travel and Tourism Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Travel and Tourism Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Travel and Tourism Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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