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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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, I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Travel and Tourism "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Travel and Tourism
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Travel and Tourism
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Travel and Tourism
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Travel and Tourism Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) 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
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) 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 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Travel and Tourism
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Travel and Tourism The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
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 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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