There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Travel and Tourism Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Travel and Tourism
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 Travel and Tourism See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Travel and Tourism
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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Travel and Tourism
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Travel and Tourism
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Travel and Tourism
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Travel and Tourism
