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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Travel and Tourism
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Travel and Tourism "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Travel and Tourism Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Travel and Tourism blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Travel and Tourism
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Travel and Tourism Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Travel and Tourism Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Travel and Tourism
