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"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Travel and Tourism A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Travel and Tourism
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Travel and Tourism If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Travel and Tourism
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Travel and Tourism "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Travel and Tourism In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Travel and Tourism
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Travel and Tourism
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Travel and Tourism "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Travel and Tourism We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Travel and Tourism
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel and Tourism "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
