It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Travel and Tourism blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Travel and Tourism
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Travel and Tourism The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Travel and Tourism
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Travel and Tourism What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show 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 Travel and Tourism
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Travel and Tourism Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Travel and Tourism
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Travel and Tourism When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Travel and Tourism
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Travel and Tourism "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Travel and Tourism
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Travel and Tourism "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
