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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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Travel and Tourism Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Travel and Tourism
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Travel and Tourism The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Travel and Tourism
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi 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 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Travel and Tourism Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Travel and Tourism For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Travel and Tourism
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Travel and Tourism "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Travel and Tourism The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley 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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Travel and Tourism
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Travel and Tourism blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Travel and Tourism
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Travel and Tourism
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Travel and Tourism These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
