Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Travel and Tourism
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Travel and Tourism We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Anyway, 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,
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"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Travel and Tourism
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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
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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Travel and Tourism "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Travel and Tourism The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Travel and Tourism
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Travel and Tourism In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Travel and Tourism
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger 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 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Travel and Tourism For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Travel and Tourism
