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"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Travel and Tourism Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 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) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Travel and Tourism The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism 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 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Travel and Tourism A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Travel and Tourism "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Travel and Tourism
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Travel and Tourism Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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
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Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Tourism
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Travel and Tourism Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Travel and Tourism
