The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel and Tourism "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
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If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- George Bernard Shaw When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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? Work Travel and Tourism It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
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-- Thomas Jefferson We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Travel and Tourism
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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ign They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
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Ahad HaAm Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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