Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Travel and Tourism
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Travel and Tourism
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
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-- James Baldwin Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
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 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
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-- H The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
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Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
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- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Travel and Tourism A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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-- Deborah Tan There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Robert Francis Kennedy Travel and Tourism
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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-- George Santayana There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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-- Confucius The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Travel and Tourism
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Travel and Tourism If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Travel and Tourism
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Travel and Tourism
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) 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
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
