A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Travel and Tourism
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Travel and Tourism Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Travel and Tourism "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Travel and Tourism
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Travel and Tourism Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne 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 Travel and Tourism
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Travel and Tourism
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Travel and Tourism Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Travel and Tourism The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Travel and Tourism
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
