When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Travel and Tourism "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) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "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) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Travel and Tourism Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 Travel and Tourism Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
"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) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Travel and Tourism
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism 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 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "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) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Travel and Tourism "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Travel and Tourism Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Travel and Tourism
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Travel and Tourism "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Travel and Tourism
