To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Travel and Tourism "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Travel and Tourism The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Travel and Tourism Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Travel and Tourism
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Travel and Tourism
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Travel and Tourism Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel and Tourism
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "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 Travel and Tourism Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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' There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Travel and Tourism Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
