Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th May you never leave your marriage alive. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Travel and Tourism
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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." I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Travel and Tourism
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Travel and Tourism
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Travel and Tourism
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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.
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Travel and Tourism Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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, Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Travel and Tourism Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Travel and Tourism
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Travel and Tourism He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
