"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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-- George Orwell It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Travel and Tourism To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Travel and Tourism
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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-- Steven Wright Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Travel and Tourism The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Travel and Tourism
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Travel and Tourism This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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-- Fred Allen "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Travel and Tourism
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Travel and Tourism 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 "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) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Travel and Tourism "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
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more supervision.
-- Lynn Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Travel and Tourism
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Travel and Tourism Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Travel and Tourism
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism
