A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Travel and Tourism
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Travel and Tourism
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism 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 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Travel and Tourism Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Travel and Tourism Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Travel and Tourism
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Travel and Tourism
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Travel and Tourism The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Travel and Tourism "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Travel and Tourism
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
