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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Travel and Tourism
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Travel and Tourism When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Travel and Tourism
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Travel and Tourism Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Travel and Tourism
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Travel and Tourism "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Travel and Tourism
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Travel and Tourism
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Travel and Tourism "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Travel and Tourism A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Travel and Tourism "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Travel and Tourism If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Travel and Tourism
