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 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Travel and Tourism
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Travel and Tourism It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Travel and Tourism
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Travel and Tourism There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Travel and Tourism
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Travel and Tourism "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Travel and Tourism "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Travel and Tourism 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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Travel and Tourism
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Travel and Tourism I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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,
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