It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Travel and Tourism "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Travel and Tourism
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Travel and Tourism Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Travel and Tourism
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Travel and Tourism If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Travel and Tourism
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel and Tourism If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Travel and Tourism
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "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) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Travel and Tourism Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel and Tourism
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Travel and Tourism I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Travel and Tourism Man and wife make one fool. "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) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
