To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Travel and Tourism Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Travel and Tourism
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Travel and Tourism Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Travel and Tourism "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Travel and Tourism
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Travel and Tourism
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Travel and Tourism
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Travel and Tourism Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer 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 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Travel and Tourism Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Travel and Tourism
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Travel and Tourism To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Travel and Tourism
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel and Tourism The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Travel and Tourism
"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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 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 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Travel and Tourism "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Travel and Tourism
