The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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-- Benjamin Tillett Travel and Tourism Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke "... 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) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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-- Victor Hugo When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Travel and Tourism Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
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-- Billie Holliday I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Travel and Tourism Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Travel and Tourism
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Oscar W Travel and Tourism Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Travel and Tourism "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Travel and Tourism
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "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) Travel and Tourism The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Travel and Tourism
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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
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-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Travel and Tourism A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Travel and Tourism
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
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