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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Travel and Tourism
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Travel and Tourism Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Travel and Tourism
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Travel and Tourism
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Travel and Tourism It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Travel and Tourism
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Travel and Tourism Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Travel and Tourism
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "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 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Travel and Tourism "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Travel and Tourism
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Travel and Tourism When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
