"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Travel and Tourism A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Travel and Tourism
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Travel and Tourism
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Travel and Tourism
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Travel and Tourism
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Travel and Tourism "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Travel and Tourism
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel and Tourism If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "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) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
