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-- Grover Cleveland Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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-- Eugene McCarthy Travel and Tourism
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Travel and Tourism
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 There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
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-- John Allston I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
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-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Travel and Tourism
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Tourism Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Travel and Tourism
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Travel and Tourism The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Travel and Tourism The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism