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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Travel Guides He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Travel Guides
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel Guides All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel Guides
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel Guides "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Travel Guides
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Travel Guides Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Travel Guides
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel Guides "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Travel Guides
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Travel Guides "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm What's new? Most of my wife. Travel Guides
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Travel Guides The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel Guides
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel Guides A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Travel Guides
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Travel Guides
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel Guides "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Travel Guides
