All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Travel and Tourism
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Travel and Tourism You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Travel and Tourism
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel and Tourism "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Travel and Tourism
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Travel and Tourism If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Travel and Tourism Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Travel and Tourism Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "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
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Travel and Tourism Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Travel and Tourism