Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Travel and Tourism Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Travel and Tourism
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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Travel and Tourism
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Travel and Tourism
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Travel and Tourism I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Travel and Tourism
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Travel and Tourism It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Travel and Tourism
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Travel and Tourism Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Travel and Tourism
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Travel and Tourism
