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- Friedrich Nietzsche What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Travel and Tourism
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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-- Billy Joel Travel and Tourism I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Travel and Tourism
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Travel and Tourism
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Travel and Tourism "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Travel and Tourism
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Travel and Tourism
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Travel and Tourism Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Travel and Tourism Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Travel and Tourism
