"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Travel and Tourism
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Travel and Tourism The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Travel and Tourism
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Travel and Tourism
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Travel and Tourism I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden 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 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Travel and Tourism
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tourism "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Travel and Tourism
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin 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
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Travel and Tourism Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
