Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Travel and Tourism I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Travel and Tourism
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Travel and Tourism
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Travel and Tourism Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Travel and Tourism Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Travel and Tourism
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Travel and Tourism "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Travel and Tourism
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide 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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Travel and Tourism
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Travel and Tourism "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Travel and Tourism "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism