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"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Travel and Tourism "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "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) Travel and Tourism
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Travel and Tourism When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Travel and Tourism A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Travel and Tourism Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Travel and Tourism
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Travel and Tourism There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Travel and Tourism
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Travel and Tourism 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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Travel and Tourism The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Travel and Tourism
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Travel and Tourism
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Travel and Tourism The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
