Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Travel and Tourism
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Travel and Tourism
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 Travel and Tourism People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Travel and Tourism "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Travel and Tourism We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Travel and Tourism
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Travel and Tourism Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Travel and Tourism Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Travel and Tourism Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Travel and Tourism
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Travel and Tourism Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Travel and Tourism
