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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Travel and Tourism We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Travel and Tourism
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Travel and Tourism
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Travel and Tourism "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Travel and Tourism
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Travel and Tourism
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Travel and Tourism
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? "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Travel and Tourism
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Travel and Tourism Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "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) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel and Tourism "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
