Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Travel and Tourism The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Travel and Tourism
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Travel and Tourism
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Travel and Tourism If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Travel and Tourism
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "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) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Travel and Tourism
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Travel and Tourism
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Travel and Tourism
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Travel and Tourism We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism
