"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Travel and Tourism
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Travel and Tourism The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Travel and Tourism He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Travel and Tourism
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Travel and Tourism
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Travel and Tourism "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Travel and Tourism Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Travel and Tourism
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Travel and Tourism
