America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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. Travel and Tourism In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Travel and Tourism Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Travel and Tourism
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Travel and Tourism Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Travel and Tourism
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Travel and Tourism I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Travel and Tourism I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Travel and Tourism
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism 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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Travel and Tourism
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Travel and Tourism
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Travel and Tourism The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Travel and Tourism
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Travel and Tourism Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism
