Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Travel and Tourism
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Travel and Tourism "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Travel and Tourism
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Travel and Tourism
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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, Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Travel and Tourism
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Travel and Tourism "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Travel and Tourism
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Travel and Tourism I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun 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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
