Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Travel and Tourism
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "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 Travel and Tourism A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Travel and Tourism Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Travel and Tourism
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Travel and Tourism If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Travel and Tourism
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Travel and Tourism At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Travel and Tourism
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Travel and Tourism Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Travel and Tourism
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Travel and Tourism
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Travel and Tourism blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "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) Travel and Tourism
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Travel and Tourism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Travel and Tourism
