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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Travel and Tourism To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Travel and Tourism
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "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 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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Travel and Tourism Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Travel and Tourism I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Travel and Tourism
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 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Travel and Tourism
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Travel and Tourism
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Travel and Tourism
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Travel and Tourism The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Travel and Tourism
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Travel and Tourism It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Travel and Tourism
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism "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) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Travel and Tourism
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Travel and Tourism You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Travel and Tourism
