"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Travel and Tourism Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel and Tourism
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Travel and Tourism There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Travel and Tourism
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke My other wife is beautiful. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Travel and Tourism
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel and Tourism Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Travel and Tourism As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Travel and Tourism Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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 Travel and Tourism To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Travel and Tourism
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
