My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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as Travel and Tourism The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Travel and Tourism Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Travel and Tourism The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Travel and Tourism
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Travel and Tourism
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Travel and Tourism
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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) Travel and Tourism A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) 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, 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Travel and Tourism
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism 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 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 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism
"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) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism
