A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Travel and Tourism Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Travel and Tourism
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Travel and Tourism
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Travel and Tourism True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Travel and Tourism
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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" Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Travel and Tourism "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Travel and Tourism
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke 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 Travel and Tourism 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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Travel and Tourism In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Travel and Tourism
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Travel and Tourism Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Travel and Tourism
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Travel and Tourism Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Travel and Tourism
