Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism
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 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "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) Travel and Tourism "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Travel and Tourism
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Travel and Tourism
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "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) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Travel and Tourism
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Travel and Tourism I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Travel and Tourism
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Travel and Tourism
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Travel and Tourism "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Travel and Tourism
