Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives -- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango -- with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists stage.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

Bob Hope

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Samuel Butler

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

She was so fat that she wears a 'cross your thighs' bra

Rodney Dangerfield

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

Steven Wright

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Suzanne Collins

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Samuel Johnson

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Hayden Christensen

They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

Stephen R. Covey

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein