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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel and Tourism
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Travel and Tourism
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Travel and Tourism The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Travel and Tourism Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Travel and Tourism
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Travel and Tourism A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Travel and Tourism "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Travel and Tourism The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism
