Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Travel and Tourism
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Travel and Tourism
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Travel and Tourism
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Travel and Tourism Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Travel and Tourism
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Travel and Tourism
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Travel and Tourism
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Travel and Tourism
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Travel and Tourism
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel and Tourism
