Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller 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 Travel You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Travel "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Travel
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Travel America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Travel
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Travel Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Travel
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi May you never leave your marriage alive. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Travel When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Travel
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Travel
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Travel Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Travel Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Travel
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel 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, "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Travel
