My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Travel and Tourism
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "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 Travel and Tourism A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Travel and Tourism "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Travel and Tourism Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel and Tourism
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Travel and Tourism The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 Travel and Tourism
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Travel and Tourism I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Travel and Tourism
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Travel and Tourism I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism
