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 It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Travel and Tourism Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Travel and Tourism "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Travel and Tourism
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Travel and Tourism I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Travel and Tourism More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Travel and Tourism
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Travel and Tourism I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Travel and Tourism Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"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) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Man and wife make one fool. Travel and Tourism Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Travel and Tourism
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Travel and Tourism People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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 have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
