Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Travel and Tourism He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Travel and Tourism
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Travel and Tourism I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Travel and Tourism
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Travel and Tourism "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Travel and Tourism
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Travel and Tourism Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Travel and Tourism Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 Travel and Tourism
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. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Travel and Tourism 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 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Travel and Tourism
