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If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Travel and Tourism
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Travel and Tourism "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Travel and Tourism Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Travel and Tourism Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Travel and Tourism
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Travel and Tourism If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Travel and Tourism
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Travel and Tourism Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Travel and Tourism
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Travel and Tourism If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "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-) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Travel and Tourism
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Travel and Tourism To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Travel and Tourism In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Travel and Tourism
