Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Travel and Tourism One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Travel and Tourism
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Travel and Tourism
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Travel and Tourism The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Travel and Tourism
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Travel and Tourism
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Travel and Tourism The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Travel and Tourism
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "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) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Travel and Tourism Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tourism Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Travel and Tourism "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Travel and Tourism
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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