Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Travel and Tourism Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Travel and Tourism Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Travel and Tourism
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Travel and Tourism Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Travel and Tourism
"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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Travel and Tourism Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
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 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Travel and Tourism "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Travel and Tourism
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Travel and Tourism Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Travel and Tourism
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Travel and Tourism They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Travel and Tourism
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Travel and Tourism Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism
