Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- Cybi Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Travel and Tourism
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Travel and Tourism Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Travel and Tourism To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau 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 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Travel and Tourism
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge 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 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Travel and Tourism
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright 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 with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Travel and Tourism "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Travel and Tourism
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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
