There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Travel and Tourism "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Travel and Tourism Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Travel and Tourism Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Travel and Tourism
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Travel and Tourism
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Travel and Tourism "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Travel and Tourism Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Travel and Tourism
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell 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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Travel and Tourism
