Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Travel and Tourism If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Travel and Tourism
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Travel and Tourism
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Travel and Tourism The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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. Travel and Tourism
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Travel and Tourism It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Travel and Tourism
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "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) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Travel and Tourism Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Travel and Tourism
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) 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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Travel and Tourism
