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"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Travel and Tourism
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Travel and Tourism
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Travel and Tourism We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Travel and Tourism
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Travel and Tourism "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Travel and Tourism I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Travel and Tourism "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
