"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Travel and Tourism Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Travel and Tourism Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Travel and Tourism People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Travel and Tourism
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Travel and Tourism
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Travel and Tourism
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Travel and Tourism Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Travel and Tourism
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Travel and Tourism Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Travel and Tourism
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Travel and Tourism
