My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Travel and Tourism
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Travel and Tourism
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Travel and Tourism I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Travel and Tourism Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Travel and Tourism
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Travel and Tourism Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Travel and Tourism He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Travel and Tourism
