"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Travel and Tourism
My other wife is beautiful. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Travel and Tourism "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Travel and Tourism
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Travel and Tourism I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Travel and Tourism The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Travel and Tourism
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Travel and Tourism
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism "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) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Travel and Tourism
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Travel and Tourism A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Travel and Tourism
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Travel and Tourism "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Travel and Tourism
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Travel and Tourism Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism
