Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Travel and Tourism "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "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) Travel and Tourism
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Travel and Tourism If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Travel and Tourism
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Travel and Tourism My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Travel and Tourism "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Travel and Tourism Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Man and wife make one fool. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Travel and Tourism Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism
