My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Travel and Tourism
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Travel and Tourism Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Travel and Tourism Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Travel and Tourism
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Travel and Tourism Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Travel and Tourism "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Travel and Tourism
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Travel and Tourism Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Travel and Tourism Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Travel and Tourism
