A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Travel and Tourism "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Travel and Tourism The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Travel and Tourism Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Travel and Tourism
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Travel and Tourism
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Travel and Tourism If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Travel and Tourism The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Travel and Tourism The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous 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? If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Travel and Tourism The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Travel and Tourism
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Travel and Tourism The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Travel and Tourism Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism
