Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Orison Swett Marden Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- Robert Frost Travel Agents
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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-- T. S. Eliot Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little Travel Agents Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Travel Agents
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Travel Agents The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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-- Charles Evans Hughes The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel Agents Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer Travel Agents
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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-- Virginia Woolf Travel Agents A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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-- Dag Hammarskjold You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel Agents
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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-- Anonymous The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- Peter DeVries The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel Agents We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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attitudes of mind.
-- William James Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Travel Agents "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Travel Agents
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- Virginia Woolf Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Travel Agents Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel Agents
