"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Travel and Tourism Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel and Tourism
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Travel and Tourism Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Travel and Tourism
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Travel and Tourism "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Travel and Tourism
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Travel and Tourism Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Travel and Tourism
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Travel and Tourism
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Travel and Tourism Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Travel and Tourism You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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