I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Travel and Tourism The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow Travel and Tourism Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Travel and Tourism
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Travel and Tourism A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Cesare Pavese There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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-- Walter Savage Landor Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Travel and Tourism
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Travel and Tourism We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
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-- Thoreau Travel and Tourism
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
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-- Dawn French The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
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-- Ellen DeGeneres "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Travel and Tourism Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Travel and Tourism
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Travel and Tourism "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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