Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Travel and Tourism
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Travel and Tourism As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Travel and Tourism
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Travel and Tourism Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Travel and Tourism
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism 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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Travel and Tourism
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Travel and Tourism
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Travel and Tourism "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Travel and Tourism
