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"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Travel and Tourism ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Travel and Tourism
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Travel and Tourism
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 Travel and Tourism Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Travel and Tourism The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Travel and Tourism Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Travel and Tourism
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Travel and Tourism Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Travel and Tourism
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Travel and Tourism To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Travel and Tourism
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Travel and Tourism
