"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Travel and Tourism The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Travel and Tourism
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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Travel and Tourism To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Travel and Tourism
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Travel and Tourism Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Travel and Tourism
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Travel and Tourism
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. 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. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Travel and Tourism The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Travel and Tourism
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 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tourism I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Travel and Tourism Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Travel and Tourism Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
