Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Travel and Tourism Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Travel and Tourism
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "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) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Travel and Tourism
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism 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 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 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Travel and Tourism
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 Travel and Tourism The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
