In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Travel and Tourism "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Travel and Tourism It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Travel and Tourism A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi 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 you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Travel and Tourism Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Travel and Tourism Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Travel and Tourism
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Travel and Tourism "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Travel and Tourism Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Travel and Tourism It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Travel and Tourism
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Travel and Tourism "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Travel and Tourism