I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Travel and Tourism
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Travel and Tourism I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- Groucho Marx The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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grand I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Travel and Tourism "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Travel and Tourism What's new? Most of my wife. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Travel and Tourism Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Travel and Tourism 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 "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) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Travel and Tourism Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Travel and Tourism There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Travel and Tourism
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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