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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Travel and Tourism Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "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, Travel and Tourism
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "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) Travel and Tourism
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Travel and Tourism The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Travel and Tourism
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Travel and Tourism
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Travel and Tourism We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Travel and Tourism
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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Travel and Tourism A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Travel and Tourism In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Travel and Tourism You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
