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"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Travel Guides If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Travel Guides
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Travel Guides I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel Guides
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel Guides University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel Guides
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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 "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 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Travel Guides When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Travel Guides
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel Guides blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel Guides
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Travel Guides Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Travel Guides
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Travel Guides "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel Guides
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Travel Guides Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel Guides "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel Guides
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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel Guides It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel Guides
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel Guides First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Travel Guides
