The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Travel and Tourism
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Travel and Tourism "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Travel and Tourism
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Travel and Tourism Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Travel and Tourism
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Travel and Tourism The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Travel and Tourism
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Travel and Tourism Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Travel and Tourism
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Travel and Tourism A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Travel and Tourism
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 Travel and Tourism The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Travel and Tourism
