Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Travel and Tourism Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Travel and Tourism
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Travel and Tourism There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Travel and Tourism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan 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
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Travel and Tourism Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Travel and Tourism Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
