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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Travel and Tourism
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Travel and Tourism Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) 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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Travel and Tourism "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Travel and Tourism
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Travel and Tourism blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Travel and Tourism
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Travel and Tourism Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Travel and Tourism I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Travel and Tourism A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism
"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) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Travel and Tourism "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Travel and Tourism
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Travel and Tourism Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 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 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Travel and Tourism "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Travel and Tourism
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Travel and Tourism This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
