"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 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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didn' Travel and Tourism We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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
be Travel and Tourism "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Travel and Tourism
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "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 Travel and Tourism "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Travel and Tourism
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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. "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Travel and Tourism To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) 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
be Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Travel and Tourism What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Travel and Tourism
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel and Tourism As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "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 There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "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) Travel and Tourism "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
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