Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Travel and Tourism I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Travel and Tourism "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Travel and Tourism
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) What's new? Most of my wife. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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
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In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism 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 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Travel and Tourism "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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