Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Travel and Tourism
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "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) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Travel and Tourism The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Travel and Tourism
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism My other wife is beautiful. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. May you never leave your marriage alive. Travel and Tourism
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Travel and Tourism Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Travel and Tourism There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Travel and Tourism "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Travel and Tourism
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Travel and Tourism Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Travel and Tourism "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Travel and Tourism
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Travel and Tourism This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel and Tourism
