Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Travel and Tourism Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Travel and Tourism
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Travel and Tourism
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Travel and Tourism "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Travel and Tourism
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Travel and Tourism Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Travel and Tourism
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "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) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Travel and Tourism
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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 Travel and Tourism
