The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Travel and Tourism Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "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-) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Travel and Tourism
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Travel and Tourism blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Travel and Tourism
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Travel and Tourism No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel and Tourism
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "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) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Travel and Tourism I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 Travel and Tourism
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Travel and Tourism
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Travel and Tourism "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Travel and Tourism
