If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Travel and Tourism
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Travel and Tourism I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Travel and Tourism
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Travel and Tourism In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Travel and Tourism
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My other wife is beautiful. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Travel and Tourism
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "... 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) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Travel and Tourism
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Travel and Tourism "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Travel and Tourism
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Travel and Tourism "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Travel and Tourism
