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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism
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) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Travel and Tourism Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 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
those tiny toil There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Travel and Tourism There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Travel and Tourism It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Travel and Tourism The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Travel and Tourism
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Travel and Tourism "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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Travel and Tourism A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Travel and Tourism There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Travel and Tourism
