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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Travel and Tourism If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Travel and Tourism
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Travel and Tourism It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Travel and Tourism
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Travel and Tourism Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Travel and Tourism
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "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) Travel and Tourism It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Travel and Tourism Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
