The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Travel and Tourism Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Travel and Tourism
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Travel and Tourism
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Travel and Tourism A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 Travel and Tourism
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Travel and Tourism "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Travel and Tourism
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Travel and Tourism Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Travel and Tourism Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Travel and Tourism
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Travel and Tourism He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Travel and Tourism
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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Travel and Tourism When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
"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) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Travel and Tourism For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Travel and Tourism
