"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Travel and Tourism 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) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Travel and Tourism
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Travel and Tourism
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) My other wife is beautiful. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Travel and Tourism In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Travel and Tourism
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Travel and Tourism When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Travel and Tourism
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Travel and Tourism
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Travel and Tourism
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Travel and Tourism
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Travel and Tourism He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Travel and Tourism If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
