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The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Travel and Tourism
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Travel and Tourism
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Travel and Tourism I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Travel and Tourism Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Travel and Tourism
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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. Travel and Tourism Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Travel and Tourism
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Travel and Tourism
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Travel and Tourism Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Travel and Tourism There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Travel and Tourism It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Travel and Tourism
