When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "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) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Travel and Tourism His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Travel and Tourism
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 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 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Travel and Tourism
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Travel and Tourism "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "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) Travel and Tourism
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Travel and Tourism Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Travel and Tourism If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism
