If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Travel and Tourism A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Travel and Tourism If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Travel and Tourism
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Travel and Tourism
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Travel and Tourism What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Travel and Tourism "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Travel and Tourism
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Travel and Tourism It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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
