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It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Travel and Tourism If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Travel and Tourism
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Travel and Tourism "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Travel and Tourism
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Travel and Tourism
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Travel and Tourism
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Travel and Tourism
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Travel and Tourism Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Travel and Tourism "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Travel and Tourism Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Travel and Tourism "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Travel and Tourism
