A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Travel and Tourism "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Travel and Tourism If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "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) Travel and Tourism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Travel and Tourism
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Travel and Tourism I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University 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 Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Travel and Tourism "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism
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 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Travel and Tourism "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Travel and Tourism
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Travel and Tourism Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
