Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Travel and Tourism It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Travel and Tourism
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism 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 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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computer that th Travel and Tourism
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Travel and Tourism Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Travel and Tourism The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Travel and Tourism
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Travel and Tourism "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Travel and Tourism
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Travel and Tourism
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Travel and Tourism A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Travel and Tourism
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
