"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Travel and Tourism >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Travel and Tourism
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Travel and Tourism Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
"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) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Travel and Tourism
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Travel and Tourism I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Travel and Tourism
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Travel and Tourism Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins What's new? Most of my wife. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
