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He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Travel and Tourism
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Travel and Tourism
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Travel and Tourism I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Travel and Tourism
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Travel and Tourism Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Travel and Tourism
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Travel and Tourism
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Travel and Tourism When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "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) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Travel and Tourism "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Travel and Tourism
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Travel and Tourism
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Travel and Tourism Marriage is a rest period between romances. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Travel and Tourism
