Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Travel and Tourism
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Travel and Tourism The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Travel and Tourism
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "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) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Travel and Tourism There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Travel and Tourism
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Travel and Tourism As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Travel and Tourism
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Travel and Tourism "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Travel and Tourism
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Travel and Tourism
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Travel and Tourism Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Travel and Tourism "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Travel and Tourism
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata 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 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Travel and Tourism
