"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Travel and Tourism
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Travel and Tourism Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Travel and Tourism
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Travel and Tourism Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Travel and Tourism "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Travel and Tourism
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Travel and Tourism
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Travel and Tourism "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "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) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Travel and Tourism Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Travel and Tourism
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Travel and Tourism My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel and Tourism
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Travel and Tourism
