Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Travel and Tourism
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Travel and Tourism Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Travel and Tourism Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Travel and Tourism
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Travel and Tourism We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Travel and Tourism
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot 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 Travel and Tourism "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Travel and Tourism
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism
