People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Travel and Tourism The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Travel and Tourism
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Travel and Tourism The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Travel and Tourism
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Travel and Tourism Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "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) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Travel and Tourism Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Travel and Tourism
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Travel and Tourism Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Travel and Tourism
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Travel and Tourism
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Travel and Tourism
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "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) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Travel and Tourism "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Travel and Tourism
