"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Travel and Tourism We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Travel and Tourism
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Travel and Tourism One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Travel and Tourism Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Travel and Tourism
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Travel and Tourism Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Travel and Tourism The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Travel and Tourism
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Travel and Tourism "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Travel and Tourism
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism