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"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Travel and Tourism Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Travel and Tourism
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Travel and Tourism "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses 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. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Travel and Tourism
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Travel and Tourism "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "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) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Travel and Tourism Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Travel and Tourism
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Travel and Tourism Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel and Tourism
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Travel and Tourism "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Travel and Tourism
