It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Travel and Tourism "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Travel and Tourism
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Travel and Tourism
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Travel and Tourism "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Travel and Tourism If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Travel and Tourism
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Travel and Tourism
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Travel and Tourism "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism
