May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Travel and Tourism
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Travel and Tourism Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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 Travel and Tourism
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Travel and Tourism "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 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Travel and Tourism "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Travel and Tourism The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Travel and Tourism
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism 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 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Travel and Tourism I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Travel and Tourism
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana 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." ( Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Travel and Tourism
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Travel and Tourism Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 Travel and Tourism
