Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Travel and Tourism
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Travel and Tourism "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) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Travel and Tourism He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Travel and Tourism
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Travel and Tourism Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Travel and Tourism What's new? Most of my wife. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Travel and Tourism
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Travel and Tourism
