I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Marriage is a rest period between romances. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "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) Travel and Tourism They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Travel and Tourism
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Travel and Tourism Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Travel and Tourism
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Travel and Tourism
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Travel and Tourism "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Travel and Tourism
"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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Travel and Tourism
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Travel and Tourism "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Travel and Tourism Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Travel and Tourism
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism
