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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Travel and Tourism Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Travel and Tourism
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Travel and Tourism
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Travel and Tourism
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Travel and Tourism
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Travel and Tourism blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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.
-- Crow Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Travel and Tourism "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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 Travel and Tourism "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Travel and Tourism
