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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Travel and Tourism blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Travel and Tourism
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Travel and Tourism
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Travel and Tourism I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Travel and Tourism
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Travel and Tourism 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Travel and Tourism
