And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Travel and Tourism 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 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Travel and Tourism
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 Travel and Tourism "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Travel and Tourism He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Travel and Tourism Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 "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 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Travel and Tourism Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Travel and Tourism
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Travel and Tourism When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Travel and Tourism
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Travel and Tourism
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Travel and Tourism
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Travel and Tourism blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
