I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "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) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Travel and Tourism
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Travel and Tourism As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Travel and Tourism When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Travel and Tourism
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Travel and Tourism There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Travel and Tourism
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Travel and Tourism "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Travel and Tourism "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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Travel and Tourism Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
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 Man and wife make one fool. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Travel and Tourism Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
