Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain 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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Travel and Tourism
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Travel and Tourism When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Travel and Tourism If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Travel and Tourism
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Travel and Tourism Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Travel and Tourism
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Travel and Tourism Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Travel and Tourism blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Travel and Tourism
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Travel and Tourism "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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
