Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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-- Ovid Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Travel and Tourism "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) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Travel and Tourism
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "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) Travel and Tourism "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Travel and Tourism
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Travel and Tourism Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Travel and Tourism
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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.
-- Anonymous The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Travel and Tourism A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Travel and Tourism Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Travel and Tourism
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton 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 Travel and Tourism
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Travel and Tourism
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Travel and Tourism Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Travel and Tourism
