How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Travel and Tourism
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Travel and Tourism
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Travel and Tourism In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Travel and Tourism
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Travel and Tourism Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Travel and Tourism
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Travel and Tourism "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Travel and Tourism
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "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) Travel and Tourism
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous 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 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Travel and Tourism If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Travel and Tourism
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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