In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Travel and Tourism The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Travel and Tourism "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Travel and Tourism
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Travel and Tourism
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Travel and Tourism
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Travel and Tourism It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Travel and Tourism
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Travel and Tourism
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Travel and Tourism 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 A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism 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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Travel and Tourism It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Travel and Tourism
