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They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Travel Guides Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 Travel Guides
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel Guides Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Travel Guides
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Travel Guides The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Travel Guides
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Travel Guides "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Travel Guides
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Travel Guides When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Travel Guides
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Travel Guides Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Travel Guides
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "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) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Travel Guides "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Travel Guides
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Travel Guides 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Travel Guides
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel Guides "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Travel Guides
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Travel Guides The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Travel Guides
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Travel Guides The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel Guides
