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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Travel and Tourism
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Tourism Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Travel and Tourism
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Travel and Tourism There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell 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
life Travel and Tourism "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Travel and Tourism A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Travel and Tourism
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Travel and Tourism
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Travel and Tourism Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Travel and Tourism A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism 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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism
