blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Travel and Tourism
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Travel and Tourism The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Travel and Tourism Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Travel and Tourism
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Travel and Tourism
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Travel and Tourism 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Travel and Tourism
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Travel and Tourism It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Travel and Tourism Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Travel and Tourism
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Travel and Tourism
