When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Travel and Tourism
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 Travel and Tourism You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Travel and Tourism
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Travel and Tourism
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Travel and Tourism We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Travel and Tourism Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Travel and Tourism To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "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
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Travel and Tourism May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Travel and Tourism
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Travel and Tourism Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Travel and Tourism
