"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Travel and Tourism
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Travel and Tourism I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
"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 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Travel and Tourism "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Travel and Tourism
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) 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
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Travel and Tourism
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Travel and Tourism In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Travel and Tourism "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Travel and Tourism
