At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Travel and Tourism "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Travel and Tourism
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Travel and Tourism "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Travel and Tourism
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Travel and Tourism If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Travel and Tourism If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Travel and Tourism
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Travel and Tourism
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Travel and Tourism
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Travel and Tourism I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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 Travel and Tourism
