"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "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) Travel and Tourism
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Travel and Tourism
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Travel and Tourism Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Travel and Tourism We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Travel and Tourism
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Travel and Tourism "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Travel and Tourism
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Travel and Tourism The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Travel and Tourism
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Travel and Tourism Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Travel and Tourism "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Travel and Tourism
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Travel and Tourism There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Travel and Tourism
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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, Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Travel and Tourism I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Travel and Tourism
