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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Travel and Tourism
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Travel and Tourism "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Travel and Tourism
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Travel and Tourism Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Travel and Tourism
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain 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. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Travel and Tourism I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Travel and Tourism Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Travel and Tourism
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
