Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Travel and Tourism "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Travel and Tourism
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Travel and Tourism I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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 Travel and Tourism Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Travel and Tourism
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Travel and Tourism These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Travel and Tourism Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Travel and Tourism If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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