Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) 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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Travel and Tourism We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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) Travel and Tourism
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Travel and Tourism "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Travel and Tourism
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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." ( Travel and Tourism Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Travel and Tourism "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Travel and Tourism
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni My other wife is beautiful. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Travel and Tourism A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Travel and Tourism
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Travel and Tourism Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia 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 Travel and Tourism "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Travel and Tourism It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Travel and Tourism
