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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Travel and Tourism An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce 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
when you r Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Travel and Tourism Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Travel and Tourism "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Travel and Tourism
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Travel and Tourism
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Travel and Tourism
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Travel and Tourism
