Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism "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) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Travel and Tourism
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Travel and Tourism You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Travel and Tourism
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Travel and Tourism "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Travel and Tourism Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Travel and Tourism "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Travel and Tourism "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Travel and Tourism
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Travel and Tourism Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Travel and Tourism
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Travel and Tourism Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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