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-- Aldous Huxley Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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ignorant.
--John Simon Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Travel and Tourism
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Travel and Tourism Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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-- Wedding Toast A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
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-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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-- Bern Williams The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Colin Wilson Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Travel and Tourism Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
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-- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Tourism
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Peter F. Drucker In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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- Isaac Asimov Travel and Tourism The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Travel and Tourism Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
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-- Charles Lamb Travel and Tourism You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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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 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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-- Cynthia H Travel and Tourism "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Travel and Tourism
