Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Travel and Tourism Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Travel and Tourism
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Travel and Tourism Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Travel and Tourism
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Travel and Tourism
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Travel and Tourism
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Travel and Tourism
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Travel and Tourism
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Travel and Tourism
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Travel and Tourism "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Travel and Tourism
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Travel and Tourism CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
