Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Travel and Tourism Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Travel and Tourism
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Travel and Tourism Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Travel and Tourism
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Travel and Tourism
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Travel and Tourism
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Travel and Tourism To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 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 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Travel and Tourism Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism
