None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Travel and Tourism
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Travel and Tourism
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Travel and Tourism It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Travel and Tourism
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism 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 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Travel and Tourism Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel and Tourism
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "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) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 Travel and Tourism Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Travel and Tourism
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Travel and Tourism A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
