Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Travel and Tourism An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
"'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, Through the Looking Glass) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Travel and Tourism
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Travel and Tourism
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Travel and Tourism
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Travel and Tourism The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Travel and Tourism
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Travel and Tourism Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
