Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Travel and Tourism What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Travel and Tourism "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Travel and Tourism
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe My other wife is beautiful. Travel and Tourism Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Travel and Tourism We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Travel and Tourism
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Travel and Tourism
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Travel and Tourism Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Travel and Tourism Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Travel and Tourism
