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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Travel and Tourism Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Travel and Tourism
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "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-) 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 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Travel and Tourism Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "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) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Travel and Tourism The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Travel and Tourism
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Travel and Tourism
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 Travel and Tourism God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Travel and Tourism Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Travel and Tourism "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Travel and Tourism When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Travel and Tourism
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Travel and Tourism In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
