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 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Travel and Tourism
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) 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
marvelous str You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Travel and Tourism The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Travel and Tourism
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. 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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Travel and Tourism Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Travel and Tourism
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "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) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Travel and Tourism There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Travel and Tourism
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel and Tourism Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Travel and Tourism "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Travel and Tourism
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Travel and Tourism The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Travel and Tourism Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism