Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism
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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism "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) "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, "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Travel and Tourism
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Travel and Tourism Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Travel and Tourism
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Travel and Tourism Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Travel and Tourism Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Travel and Tourism
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Travel and Tourism
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Travel and Tourism 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism
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 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Travel and Tourism I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
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