"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Travel and Tourism 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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Travel and Tourism
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Travel and Tourism
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Travel and Tourism
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Travel and Tourism
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia 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 tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. Travel and Tourism This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a rest period between romances. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Travel and Tourism "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
