"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Travel and Tourism I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Travel and Tourism I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Travel and Tourism
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Travel and Tourism Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Travel and Tourism
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Travel and Tourism
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Travel and Tourism Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel and Tourism
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Travel and Tourism Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Travel and Tourism
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Travel and Tourism
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Travel and Tourism A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Travel and Tourism
