It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Travel and Tourism
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Travel and Tourism "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Travel and Tourism One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Travel and Tourism
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Travel and Tourism
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Travel and Tourism In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Travel and Tourism
My other wife is beautiful. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Travel and Tourism Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Travel and Tourism "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Travel and Tourism "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "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..." ( You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
