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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- George H. Mead Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Travel and Tourism
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
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the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Travel and Tourism
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Travel and Tourism
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Travel and Tourism
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Travel and Tourism Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism
