The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Travel and Tourism "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Travel and Tourism "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Travel and Tourism It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Travel and Tourism
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Travel and Tourism >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Travel and Tourism
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Travel and Tourism "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Travel and Tourism
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Travel and Tourism
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Travel and Tourism "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Travel and Tourism
