Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel and Tourism "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Travel and Tourism I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Travel and Tourism Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Travel and Tourism "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Travel and Tourism "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero 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. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
