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Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Travel and Tourism
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Travel and Tourism Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Travel and Tourism
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism 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 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Travel and Tourism
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Travel and Tourism
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
answer. In fact, women's total ins Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Travel and Tourism
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Travel and Tourism University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Travel and Tourism The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland 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
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Travel and Tourism All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Travel and Tourism
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Travel and Tourism
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "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) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism
