I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Travel and Tourism We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel and Tourism
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Travel and Tourism
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Travel and Tourism People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism 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.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
