I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Travel and Tourism A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Travel and Tourism A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Travel and Tourism
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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-- Anonymous Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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-- John Cage I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Travel and Tourism "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
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-- Anton Chekhov "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Travel and Tourism
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Travel and Tourism
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Travel and Tourism In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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perfectly.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Travel and Tourism blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Travel and Tourism Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Travel and Tourism
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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" Travel and Tourism "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Travel and Tourism In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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people all Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Travel and Tourism
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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of Travel and Tourism Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Travel and Tourism