Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Travel and Tourism If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Travel and Tourism
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Travel and Tourism
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Travel and Tourism If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Travel and Tourism
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Travel and Tourism 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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Travel and Tourism
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Travel and Tourism Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Travel and Tourism
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Travel and Tourism Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Travel and Tourism blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 Travel and Tourism
