"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Travel and Tourism
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 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Travel and Tourism
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism 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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel and Tourism
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 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 Travel and Tourism I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Travel and Tourism
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Travel and Tourism A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Travel and Tourism
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "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) Travel and Tourism "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Travel and Tourism Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Travel and Tourism
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Travel and Tourism
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Travel and Tourism "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
