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The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Travel and Tourism I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Travel and Tourism An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Travel and Tourism
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Travel and Tourism Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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 would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Travel and Tourism
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Travel and Tourism
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Travel and Tourism
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford 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) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Travel and Tourism A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Travel and Tourism
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Travel and Tourism In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Travel and Tourism Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Travel and Tourism
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Travel and Tourism We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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