We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Travel and Tourism 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 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Travel and Tourism
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Travel and Tourism
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel and Tourism "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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-- Woody Allen When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Travel and Tourism "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 Travel and Tourism "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) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Travel and Tourism
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Travel and Tourism Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Travel and Tourism
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Travel and Tourism "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
