Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Travel and Tourism
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Travel and Tourism Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 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 Travel and Tourism My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins 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) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Travel and Tourism "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Travel and Tourism The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Travel and Tourism
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine 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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Travel and Tourism
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism 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 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Travel and Tourism
