Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Travel and Tourism
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Travel and Tourism "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Travel and Tourism
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Travel and Tourism Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Travel and Tourism
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Travel and Tourism Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Travel and Tourism
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Travel and Tourism Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Travel and Tourism
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Travel and Tourism Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Travel and Tourism
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Travel and Tourism "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Travel and Tourism
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Travel and Tourism The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Travel and Tourism
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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Travel and Tourism Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "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) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism
