Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Travel and Tourism
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Travel and Tourism
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Travel and Tourism
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Travel and Tourism
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Travel and Tourism Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Travel and Tourism Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Travel and Tourism Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 Travel and Tourism
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Travel and Tourism I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Travel and Tourism
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
