Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Travel and Tourism
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "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) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Travel and Tourism Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Travel and Tourism
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Travel and Tourism My other wife is beautiful. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
