In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- George Bird Evans Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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the ugl All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Travel and Tourism
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Travel and Tourism 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Travel and Tourism
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Travel and Tourism Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Travel and Tourism
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Travel and Tourism "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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as Travel and Tourism Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Travel and Tourism
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Travel and Tourism "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
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-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Travel and Tourism
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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-- George Eliot "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Travel and Tourism If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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scumbags dev Travel and Tourism The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Travel and Tourism
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism
