A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Travel and Tourism "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Travel and Tourism
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Travel and Tourism
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Travel and Tourism "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Travel and Tourism To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Travel and Tourism
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Travel and Tourism
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Travel and Tourism
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Travel and Tourism The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin May you never leave your marriage alive. Travel and Tourism Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
