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Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Travel Guides The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Travel Guides
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Travel Guides
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Travel Guides Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Travel Guides
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Travel Guides Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Travel Guides Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Travel Guides
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Travel Guides
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Travel Guides He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Travel Guides
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Travel Guides Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Travel Guides
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel Guides Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Travel Guides
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Travel Guides "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Travel Guides
