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Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Travel and Tourism "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Travel and Tourism
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Travel and Tourism Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Travel and Tourism
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Travel and Tourism I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel and Tourism
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Travel and Tourism Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
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 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Travel and Tourism You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene 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 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Travel and Tourism
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Travel and Tourism
