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"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Travel and Tourism I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel and Tourism
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Travel and Tourism Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Travel and Tourism Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Travel and Tourism
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel and Tourism I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Travel and Tourism There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Travel and Tourism
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Travel and Tourism Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Travel and Tourism
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 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
pain Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Travel and Tourism
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Travel and Tourism "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Travel and Tourism
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
