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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Travel and Tourism "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 Travel and Tourism
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "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) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Travel and Tourism Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Travel and Tourism
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Travel and Tourism
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel and Tourism You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Travel and Tourism
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Travel and Tourism "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Travel and Tourism
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Travel and Tourism What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism
