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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Travel and Tourism
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Travel and Tourism Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 "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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Travel and Tourism The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "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) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Travel and Tourism
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Travel and Tourism "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Travel and Tourism I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Travel and Tourism
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Travel and Tourism Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Travel and Tourism
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Travel and Tourism When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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