A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Travel and Tourism I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Travel and Tourism The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Travel and Tourism
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Travel and Tourism No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Travel and Tourism
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Travel and Tourism "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Travel and Tourism The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Travel and Tourism LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Travel and Tourism
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Travel and Tourism Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
