Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Travel and Tourism Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Travel and Tourism There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Travel and Tourism Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Travel and Tourism
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Travel and Tourism Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Travel and Tourism There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Travel and Tourism In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "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) Travel and Tourism
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Travel and Tourism "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Travel and Tourism
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Travel and Tourism Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism
