"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "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) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Travel and Tourism Man and wife make one fool. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Travel and Tourism That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Travel and Tourism
"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) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Travel and Tourism
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel and Tourism The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Travel and Tourism "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Travel and Tourism The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Travel and Tourism
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "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) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Travel and Tourism
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Travel and Tourism
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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, I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Travel and Tourism
