Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Travel and Tourism When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"'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, Through the Looking Glass) Travel and Tourism
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Travel and Tourism Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Travel and Tourism
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Travel and Tourism Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon 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, Travel and Tourism More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "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 Travel and Tourism
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Travel and Tourism "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Travel and Tourism Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Travel and Tourism
