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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 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Travel and Tourism
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats 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 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Travel and Tourism There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Travel and Tourism
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Travel and Tourism
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism 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 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Travel and Tourism The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Travel and Tourism Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Travel and Tourism
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel and Tourism "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Travel and Tourism
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Travel and Tourism I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Travel and Tourism Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Travel and Tourism
