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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Travel and Tourism
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Travel and Tourism The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Travel and Tourism
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Travel and Tourism "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Travel and Tourism
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Travel and Tourism As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Travel and Tourism
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "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) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Travel and Tourism The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Travel and Tourism He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Travel and Tourism
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
