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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Travel and Tourism Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "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) Travel and Tourism "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Travel and Tourism
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Travel and Tourism Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism
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 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Travel and Tourism
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Travel and Tourism The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "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) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "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) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Travel and Tourism He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Travel and Tourism
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Travel and Tourism "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Travel and Tourism
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Travel and Tourism No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
