"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel and Tourism There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Travel and Tourism
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Travel and Tourism You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Travel and Tourism
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Travel and Tourism A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Travel and Tourism
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Travel and Tourism To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Travel and Tourism
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Travel and Tourism "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Travel and Tourism
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
