Mysteries of France - Journey to Land of the Cathars, The Knights Templar, and Rennes-le-Chateau.
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
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-- S. T. Coleridge Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Travel and Tourism
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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cr 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Travel and Tourism Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Travel and Tourism
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Travel and Tourism Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Travel and Tourism Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Travel and Tourism "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism
