A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Jim Backus Travel and Tourism The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
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-- Grace Hansen Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Travel and Tourism
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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-- Henny Youngman Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
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-- Michel de Montaigne A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Travel and Tourism
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
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-- Niels Bohr Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism Honor lies in honest toil.
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- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
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-- Slavoj Zizek A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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-- Anon. Travel and Tourism If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Travel and Tourism The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Francois Cavanna "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Charlotte Whitton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Travel and Tourism Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
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-- Ed Bluestone Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Travel and Tourism "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Travel and Tourism
