Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel and Tourism Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber 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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Travel and Tourism We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Travel and Tourism "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) 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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Travel and Tourism
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Travel and Tourism "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
"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) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Travel and Tourism I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. 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 Travel and Tourism
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Travel and Tourism "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Travel and Tourism
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Travel and Tourism
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Travel and Tourism A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
