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"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Travel and Tourism For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Every child is born a genius.
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-- Dave Barry May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Travel and Tourism
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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-- Anatole France Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Travel and Tourism
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Travel and Tourism
"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 May you never leave your marriage alive. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
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-- Michel de Montaigne The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Travel and Tourism
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Travel and Tourism "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman 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 Travel and Tourism
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
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We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Travel and Tourism Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Travel and Tourism
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Travel and Tourism There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
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-- Mary Alice Messenger Travel and Tourism If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Travel and Tourism
