A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Travel and Tourism The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress 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 can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Travel and Tourism
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Travel and Tourism Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Travel and Tourism A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Travel and Tourism He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Travel and Tourism You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Travel and Tourism Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Travel and Tourism
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Travel and Tourism I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Travel and Tourism Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Travel and Tourism How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism
