We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 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. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Travel and Tourism The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Travel and Tourism
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Travel and Tourism Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Travel and Tourism
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Travel and Tourism Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Travel and Tourism
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism
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 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Travel and Tourism Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Travel and Tourism
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Travel and Tourism To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Travel and Tourism
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "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) Travel and Tourism The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) 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
