Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Travel and Tourism
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "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) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Travel and Tourism Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Travel and Tourism
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "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 Travel and Tourism
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Travel and Tourism "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Travel and Tourism
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin 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 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel and Tourism
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Travel and Tourism Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Travel and Tourism
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "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) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Travel and Tourism "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) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Travel and Tourism
