The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Travel and Tourism Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Travel and Tourism
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Travel and Tourism 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Travel and Tourism
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
of u There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Travel and Tourism "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Travel and Tourism
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Travel and Tourism Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Travel and Tourism
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Travel and Tourism "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism
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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Travel and Tourism I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Travel and Tourism
