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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Travel and Tourism "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Travel and Tourism
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Travel and Tourism The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Travel and Tourism
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Travel and Tourism
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Travel and Tourism
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Travel and Tourism
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Travel and Tourism Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Travel and Tourism
