The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Helen Giangregorio "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Travel and Tourism I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Paul Ehrlich When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Travel and Tourism
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Travel and Tourism Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Travel and Tourism May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Travel and Tourism
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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grand Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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-- John Adams "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Travel and Tourism A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Travel and Tourism
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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
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-- Mae West When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Travel and Tourism
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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coachin Travel and Tourism In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
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-- Albert Einstein A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Travel and Tourism "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Travel and Tourism
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Travel and Tourism Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 and Tourism Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Travel and Tourism
