The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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and Travel and Tourism Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "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 Travel and Tourism "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Travel and Tourism
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Travel and Tourism Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Travel and Tourism
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Travel and Tourism One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "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) Travel and Tourism The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Travel and Tourism
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "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) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
