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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Travel and Tourism "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Travel and Tourism
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 Travel and Tourism People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Travel and Tourism 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 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Travel and Tourism
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Travel and Tourism Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Travel and Tourism
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Travel and Tourism May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel and Tourism "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Travel and Tourism
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Travel and Tourism "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Travel and Tourism
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
