I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Travel and Tourism Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Man and wife make one fool. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Travel and Tourism Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Travel and Tourism
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Travel and Tourism
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Travel and Tourism Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Travel and Tourism
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Travel and Tourism Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Travel and Tourism Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
