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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Travel and Tourism "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Travel and Tourism
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Travel and Tourism A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "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 Travel and Tourism
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Travel and Tourism
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Travel and Tourism
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Travel and Tourism
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Travel and Tourism The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Travel and Tourism The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Travel and Tourism
