"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
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-- Andrew Brown The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Travel and Tourism "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Travel and Tourism
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Travel and Tourism Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Anne Sullivan Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Travel and Tourism
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Travel and Tourism
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Travel and Tourism At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Travel and Tourism When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Travel and Tourism
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Travel and Tourism The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Travel and Tourism
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Travel and Tourism If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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