When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Travel and Tourism Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel and Tourism
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Travel and Tourism "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Travel and Tourism
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Travel and Tourism Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Travel and Tourism
