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In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Travel and Tourism
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Travel and Tourism
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Travel and Tourism Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Travel and Tourism Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Travel and Tourism
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Travel and Tourism
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Travel and Tourism Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Travel and Tourism
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Travel and Tourism "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Travel and Tourism
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel and Tourism A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx What's new? Most of my wife. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Travel and Tourism "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 Travel and Tourism I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
