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It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Travel and Tourism The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Travel and Tourism
What's new? Most of my wife. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Travel and Tourism
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Travel and Tourism "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel and Tourism Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Travel and Tourism My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Travel and Tourism When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Travel and Tourism
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Travel and Tourism
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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 greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel and Tourism
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Travel and Tourism Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism
