"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Travel and Tourism Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Travel and Tourism Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Travel and Tourism
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 Travel and Tourism
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Travel and Tourism
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Travel and Tourism Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Travel and Tourism Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Travel and Tourism
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Travel and Tourism "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Travel and Tourism
"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) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Travel and Tourism And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Travel and Tourism
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Travel and Tourism I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
