It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Travel and Tourism Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Travel and Tourism
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Travel and Tourism And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Travel and Tourism "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "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) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Travel and Tourism We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 Travel and Tourism
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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Travel and Tourism
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Travel and Tourism "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Travel and Tourism
