A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Travel and Tourism Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Travel and Tourism
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Travel and Tourism
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Travel and Tourism "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Travel and Tourism 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 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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Travel and Tourism
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Travel and Tourism "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
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. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Travel and Tourism The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Travel and Tourism
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Travel and Tourism
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Travel and Tourism
