We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Travel and Tourism "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Travel and Tourism
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Travel and Tourism Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Travel and Tourism
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Travel and Tourism "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Travel and Tourism
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Travel and Tourism Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel and Tourism
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Travel and Tourism I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Travel and Tourism
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Travel and Tourism Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Travel and Tourism A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Travel and Tourism Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
