"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Travel and Tourism I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Travel and Tourism "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Travel and Tourism Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Travel and Tourism
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Travel and Tourism
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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-- Latin Proverb Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni 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 Travel and Tourism "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Travel and Tourism
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "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) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, Travel and Tourism Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Travel and Tourism
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Travel and Tourism Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Travel and Tourism
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Travel and Tourism Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Travel and Tourism
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Travel and Tourism
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Travel and Tourism Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Travel and Tourism
