The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Travel and Tourism
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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-- John Adams "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Travel and Tourism
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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machi Travel and Tourism At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Travel and Tourism
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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-- Fred Allen I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Travel and Tourism
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Travel and Tourism
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Travel and Tourism "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Travel and Tourism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Travel and Tourism For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Travel and Tourism I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Travel and Tourism
