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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Travel and Tourism Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Travel and Tourism
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Travel and Tourism The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Travel and Tourism
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Travel and Tourism
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Travel and Tourism Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Travel and Tourism "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Travel and Tourism "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous 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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Travel and Tourism "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
