"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Travel and Tourism
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Travel and Tourism "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Travel and Tourism The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Travel and Tourism
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Travel and Tourism
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "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) Travel and Tourism It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Travel and Tourism "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "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) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Travel and Tourism
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Travel and Tourism Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "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) Travel and Tourism
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Travel and Tourism Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 Travel and Tourism
