Jamaica Inn, Bodmin Moor - Originally the coaching inn on the main London to Cornwall road. Used by smugglers, now a museum with a slant towards Daphne du Maurier who made it famous with her eponymous book.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Travel and Tourism I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Travel and Tourism
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Travel and Tourism "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Travel and Tourism
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Travel and Tourism
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 Travel and Tourism If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Travel and Tourism And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Travel and Tourism "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Travel and Tourism Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Travel and Tourism
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Travel and Tourism "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
