blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown 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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Travel and Tourism Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Travel and Tourism
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Travel and Tourism "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Travel and Tourism
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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Travel and Tourism Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Travel and Tourism
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Travel and Tourism "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Travel and Tourism The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Travel and Tourism
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 Travel and Tourism Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Travel and Tourism
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism
