Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Travel and Tourism
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson 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 Travel and Tourism "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Travel and Tourism
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Travel and Tourism "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Travel and Tourism I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Travel and Tourism "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Travel and Tourism I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Travel and Tourism "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
