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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Travel and Tourism "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 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Travel and Tourism
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Travel and Tourism "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Travel and Tourism
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Travel and Tourism Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel and Tourism If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Travel and Tourism
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Travel and Tourism "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Travel and Tourism
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marriage is a rest period between romances. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Travel and Tourism
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Travel and Tourism "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
