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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Travel and Tourism It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Travel and Tourism
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Travel and Tourism If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Travel and Tourism
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Travel and Tourism "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Travel and Tourism Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Travel and Tourism
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Travel and Tourism
"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) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Travel and Tourism Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Travel and Tourism Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism
